| Metonymy-naming view, proposed by embodied-cognitive linguistics, holds that naming is a process in which people use the most prominent perceptual features of things to substitute the things themselves based on the embodied-cognitive principle. The birds in the Yancheng Bird List 3. 0 are metonymically named in Chinese and English with different prominent features, including chirping, shape, color, habitat, distribution area, living habits, names of discoverers, and human subjective attitudes (towards them). Differences in metonymic bird naming between Chinese and English stem from their respective cultural preferences. |