“大”、“小”隐喻英汉对比分析

English-Chinese Contrastive Study on the Metaphor of Bigand Small

认知语言学认为空间隐喻在人类的认知活动中扮演着重要的角色,许多抽象的概念必须通过空间隐喻来构成,物体形状隐喻属于空间隐喻的范畴。文章通过对物体形状的最基本概念“大、小”的隐喻认知模式及语言表达的英汉对比分析,探讨了物体形状隐喻在规模、数量、社会地位、性质、年龄、品质、强度、程度等概念域中的异同。

Cognitive linguistics holds that spatial metaphor plays an important role in our cognition and many abstract concepts are constructed through it. Shaped metaphor, whose basic concept is BIG and SMALL, is one form of spatial metaphor. By analyzing Chinese and English data, this paper is intended to study the differences of the metaphorical extension of ＂big＂ and ＂small＂ in the following domains： scale, quantity, status, age, quality, intensity and degree.