Abstract:

Based on the English-Chinese Dictionary of Military Terms, an enclosed corpus was constructed to analyze the naming characteristics of verbal military terminology, with a focus on phenomena such as disyllabification, tetraphrase, and archaization. Through a detailed analysis of 1 552 verbal military terms, the cognitive principles and cultural logic behind the naming strategies were revealed, and a naming model for verbal military terminology was proposed. Utilizing the conceptual integration theory from cognitive linguistics, the study illuminated how the naming process for verbal military terms achieves cross-lingual and cross-cultural understanding and precise communication by constructing and blending input information in mental spaces.

Key words: verbal military terminology, naming model of military terminology naming, cognitive linguistics, Conceptual Integration Theory