Intentional Interpretation of the Semantic Structure of Chinese Idioms from the Perspective of Philosophy of Mind

摘要

With the concept of intentionality in the philosophy of mind, this paper puts forward three principles of intentional explanation of the semantic structure of Chinese idioms such as the dominance principle of intentionality, the priority principle of intention content and the principle of intentional attitude influencing intentional content. Then the Intentional interpretative framework is constructed to explain that the formation of the semantic structure of Chinese idioms is essentially the process that dominated by the intentionality, the semantic structure is generated through the explanation of the intentional content by the intentional attitude. In this process, different intentional contend is produced by the explanation of different intentional attitude, so as to realize the transformation of the semantic structure from the literal meaning to the metaphoric meaning.