Empirical Evidence: The Semantic Structural Evolution from "Ordinary Novelty" to "Literary Classic"

Specifically, this study selects language materials from literary classics (such as Shakespeare and Su Shi), philosophical works (such as Plato and Laozi), and political discourse (such as Marx and Churchill) based on the three principles of "classicism", "cross domain mapping salience", and "structural integrity". The selected corpus covers four core semantic fields: (1) time, history, and memory; (2) Life, destiny, and existence; (3) Emotional and psychological states; (4) Social and political ideology.

The corpus sources widely cover Chinese classical poetry, modern literary classics, as well as Western philosophical and literary classics. In order to standardize the calculation, foreign language materials are accurately translated into Chinese by professionals to eliminate the interference of cross linguistic morphological differences on the extraction of semantic vectors from large models. In order to ensure strict inter group comparability of the three levels of corpus in computational analysis, this study invited two linguistics PhDs to reconstruct all classic corpora into an explicit propositional structure of "ontology metaphor common features" (i.e., "T like B, because they are all F") that is completely consistent with the laboratory collected corpora.

Two experts independently extracted the "key common feature (F)" that best conveys the original author's intention in the context of the original text and conducted cross checking. This rigorous standardization procedure lays an objective data foundation for extracting high-dimensional semantic vectors in the future.