Attitudinal Meanings of Chinese Insect Vernacular Names from the Perspective of Ternary Interactive Language Niche

JIN Shangran; JIANG Ting; ZHANG Hui

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022100061

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JIN Shangran, JIANG Ting, ZHANG Hui. Attitudinal Meanings of Chinese Insect Vernacular Names from the Perspective of Ternary Interactive Language Niche[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2023, 39(6): 729-738. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022100061

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JIN Shangran, JIANG Ting, ZHANG Hui. Attitudinal Meanings of Chinese Insect Vernacular Names from the Perspective of Ternary Interactive Language Niche[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2023, 39(6): 729-738. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022100061

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Attitudinal Meanings of Chinese Insect Vernacular Names from the Perspective of Ternary Interactive Language Niche

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022100061

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Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201620, China
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School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Received Date: 2022-10-14
Available Online: 2023-10-11
Publish Date: 2023-12-25

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As Chinese folk appellations, Chinese insect vernacular names are formed in the interaction between embodied cognition and the realistic environment, and are endowed with strong attitudinal meanings that mirror and construct the interdependence of insects, humans and the environment. Focusing on 37 Chinese vernacular names of ladybugs and 30 names of cockroaches collected from the BCC corpus, dictionaries, classics and insect writings, this study builds a ternary interactive language niche based on the ternary interaction of “reality-cognition-language” and language niche, so as to analyze the implicit attitudes, cognitive mechanisms and environmental factors of the Chinese vernacular names of the two, with the ultimate aim of revealing their ecological attributes based on the ecosophy of “ecological aesthetics”. The study concludes that appreciation resources within the Chinese vernacular names of ladybugs and cockroaches rank at the top, and the cognitive mechanisms and environmental factors that influence the formation of their names result in different attitudinal values. Ladybug names tend to have positive or neutral potentials, while cockroach names tend to be negative or neutral. As for the ecological connotations and attributes embedded in their names, metonymic names under the influence of natural factors are full of ecologically beneficial aesthetic wisdom, while some metaphorical and metaphtonymic names under social or cultural factors betray to some extent ecological aesthetic ecosophy, thus being ecologically ambivalent or destructive. This article provides intriguing insights into human-insect relationships based on Chinese insect vernacular names. It is conducive to reconstructing people’s cognition of insects and promoting ecological naming practices.
- insect names,
- attitudinal meaning,
- ternary interaction,
- niche,
- ecosophy

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