从认知角度看英汉经济语篇中的概念隐喻

Cognitive Approach to Conceptual Metaphor in Chinese & English Economic Discourse

经济新闻语篇中存在着大量的隐喻表达,这些语言层次的隐喻表达背后隐藏着系统的概念隐喻映射。这些概念隐喻植根于人们的身体经验和社会经验,人们依据熟悉的概念构建抽象概念。英汉经济语篇中主要的几种映射模式有健康隐喻、战争隐喻、婚姻隐喻。这些概念隐喻在英汉语篇中存在着概念映射层面和语言表达层面的差异,受不同社会文化背景的影响。

The economic discourse contains numerous metaphorical expressions which are based on conceptual metaphors. Those conceptual metaphors root in our physical and social experience. People construct the abstract concepts based on the concrete. The economic discourse contains health metaphor, war metaphor, and marriage metaphor etc. Those conceptual metaphors in Chinese and English discourse are different in linguistic and conceptual level and conditioned by cultural background.