And metaphors can play a role in the stipulations of the explicit meanings of the utterances.

This thesis approves the " Graded Salience Hypothesis" suggested by Rachel Giora,explains the forms of "salience of sense",and then provides cognitive evidence for the sense salience of figurative language.

The reading process combines the visionary interpretation; it appears to take the language code and iconic code as organic parts, so it has a good value for creating the meaning manifestation during the process of the aesthetic subject reading.

The present paper discusses the correlation between schema theory and discourse comprehension,which is classified into three aspects:information processing pattern of schema theory,meaning manifestation set up by schemata and cognitive inference educed from schemata.

Word meaning in utterance can be divided into two kinds: explicature and implicature.

This paper focuses its analysis on the four aspects of meaning of an English word,namely,the denotative meaning showing the relation between meaning and things,the grammatical meaning showing the relation between mean- ing and grammar,the connotative meaning showing the relation between meaning and people and the translational meaning between words of different languages.

This essay studies the idioms with figures between Russian and Chinese,according to the grammatical category,rhetorical devices and ways of expression,explores the connotative meaning,denotative meaning,as well as the corresponding relationship of Russian and Chinese cultures.