ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Cognitive Science
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1545253
Do the expressions about customarily doing reflect our cognition and emotion: Evidence from Chinese BCC corpus
Provisionally accepted
- 1Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
- 2Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan Province, China
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Through an in-depth analysis of the Chinese BCC colloquial corpus, this paper discusses the cognitive and emotional features of the temporal contouring of "customarily X" (X refers to verb or adjective) in spoken Chinese, focusing on the two different expressions of "often V" (V= verb) and "be often A" (A= adjective).The "often V" structure is often used to express the frequent occurrence of actions, and the collocation with bounded verbs indicates the repetition of actions, and also indicates the repetition of time on the timeline. The "often + unbounded verbs" changes the state of unbounded verbs and activates bounded cognitive processing.The "be often A" structure is usually used to describe the regularity of emotions and physical sensations, and is often paired with negative adjectives to reflect the mental time of human cognition.
Keywords: customarily, Unbounded, Bounded, cognitive processing, emotion
Received: 14 Dec 2024; Accepted: 28 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Limin Zhang, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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