摘要
汉藏语系若干语支的代表性语言———汉、景颇、藏和傣等语言都有“空间隐喻时间”的共性,在时间类型上都有以下五种:1.时间是空间;2.时间是动体;3.时间是容器;4.时间是距离;5.时间是特征。同时这些时间隐喻又具有个性,在词汇层面上各具特色:第一,所选的少数民族语时间词形态理据较为明显;第二,所选的少数民族语更倾向于将时间拟人化;第三,汉语和藏语的时间隐喻在纵向维度上比景颇、傣语的丰富;第四,所选的少数民族语中许多表示时间的词语是自然特征的借代。
In Some Sino——Tibetan Languages such as Han, Jingpho, Tibetan, and Dai languages, a common feature-the conceptual metaphor “time is space”-exist in these languages systematically. And five categories are found: (1) time is space; (2) time is moving object; (3) time is vessel; (4) time is distance; (5) time is feature. These temporal metaphors also have their own traits-at the lexical level time is expressed variously: (1) time words in minority languages are more transparent in morphemic motivation than those in Chinese; (2) time tends to be personalized in Jingpho, Tibetan, and Dai languages; (3) vertical metaphor (“up”and “down”) in Han language and especially in Tibetan language is expressed in a much richer fashion; (4) many season words in these minority languages are metonymies of the nature's feature.
出处
《中央民族大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》
CSSCI
北大核心
2005年第5期112-121,共10页
Journal of Minzu University of China(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)
关键词
隐喻
时间隐喻
汉藏语系
metaphor
temporal metaphor
Sino-Tibetan languages