隐喻认知与英汉文化差异

隐喻是用一种事物来理解和体验另外一种事物的方式,是人们赖以生存的一种语言现象和认知模式。它受社会文化背景影响,表现出明显的文化特征。隐喻是理解认知能力的唯一方法,也是语言理解和语言习得中不可缺少的工具。了解英汉语言中隐喻的不同特点,对于在跨文化交际中语言的学习将起到积极的作用。

Metaphor is a mode of experiencing other things with a thing, and is a linguistic phenomenon and recognizing modality for people to live . Duo to the influence of the social culture background, it expresses obvious cultural features. It is the sole method of recognition capacity, and also is a dispensable implement in the language understanding and harvest . To know its different characteristics in the English and Chinese will take active functions on language studying in the multi-culture intercommunication.