From the perspective of cognitive semantics to analyze the process of verbal humor generation,it has been found that ambiguity causes two kinds of explanations of humor,which are in accordance with the whole discourse,resulting in producing two different kinds of meanings,which form a contrast.

Image schemas,discussed heatedly in cognitive semantics,derive from people s embodied experience in the world.

This paper demonstrates the essence of the progressive aspect from the cognitive meaning and schema, that is :to express a durative process consisting of dynamic changes implying end points but excluding them.

On the ground of empiricism,basing on the body perception of the objective world,cognitive semantics thinks that semantic is the process of conceptualization and categorization.

Based on the different theories, the semantic cognition of verbs may be analyzed from different angles.

Then we interpret the construction of the sentences from semantic cognition.

Tell (gaosu) and inquire (dating) are basic speech act verbs in English-Chinese which have unique features of informative transmission and semantic cognition.

This paper adopts a construction-based approach in combination with cognitive semantics tenets to rethink the mystified "Adv.