概念隐喻和语篇连贯

Conceptual metaphor and discourse coherence

本文从认知的角度,根据Lakoff和Langacker的理论,分析了Robert Penn Warren的叙事语篇All the King s Men。语篇在叙事结构的框架内展开,一方面陈述人物经验,为隐喻提供经验基础;另一方面,通过对twitch的隐喻化完成对经验的概念化和诠释,结果是跨领域的概念映射———概念隐喻。隐喻是统驭语篇的因素,保证了语篇的连贯,而语篇则体现了概念隐喻。

This paper is an analysis of the narrative discourse All the King's Men from a cognitive approach, centering round a conceptual metaphor, using theories advanced by Lakoff and Langacker. The text is found to unfold within the framework of narrative structure, presenting the life of the characters, thus providing the experiential basis for the metaphor, and, meanwhile, proceeding with the conceptualization and construal of the experience by means of the metaphorization of the metaphoric expression “twitch”. The result is a conceptual mapping across the domains — a conceptual metaphor: Life Is A Twitch. The metaphor serves as the unifying factor in the text, which ensures the coherence of the discourse, and the text, in its turn, represents the realization of the metaphor.