跨文化交际中英汉方位隐喻的对比研究

A Contrastive Research on Chinese and English Orientational Metaphor in Intercultural Communication

空间隐喻是一种复杂的社会语言现象,具有非任意性、系统性、社会性和多维性的特征。在跨文化交际中,若能注意空间隐喻所体现的异同,能促进跨文化交际的成功。

Orientational Metaphor metaphor is a very complicated social phenomenon. It has such features as non-arbitrariness, systematicality, sociality and multidimensionality. Some differences and similarities can be found frequently in both Chinese and English cultures. Communications will be successful if the differences could be paid attention to.