Abstract:

Chinese polysemy is always both the key point for teachers’ teaching and the difficult point for students’ learning Metaphor of the cognitive linguistics will be used to comb the connection among words By analyzing the semantic meanings of Chinese characters “head”, “hand”, “mouth” and “hit”, it is found that the development of polysemy’s semantic meaning generally follows human’s cognitive principle and evolves from metaphor and metonymy, among which, the body metaphor directly reflects the cognitive process of human—thing—matter, strengthening the students’ interest in polysemy learning Consequently, applying cognitive strategy in Chinese teaching will help consolidate language knowledge, increase students’ interest and create a new philosophy and method for students’ Chinese learning

Key words: cognitive strategy, metaphor, Chinese, polysemy