摘要
以英美影视剧台词语料为基础,从认知语言学的角度考察分析了英语口语中十分常见的here/there+we/you+go/are习语。本这类习语的诸多意义都可追溯到空间体验和由此产生的"始源—路径—目的地"这一空间意象图式,同时这类习语的形式变化和部分意义拓展源于不同的识解运作,如注意力、力动态、视角等。本文归纳了隐喻投射机制下这类习语的四大隐喻意义。文章再次证明,空间体验是语义表征的源泉,语义即是概念化。
This article, on the basis of the corpus of English film and TV show transcripts, investigates the ＂here / there ＋ we / you ＋ go / are＂ idioms commonly found in spoken English from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. It argues that various meanings of the idioms can be traced back to human＇ s spatial experience and, hence, schematic image of source - path - destination. Meanwhile, the variation of their forms and partial meaning expansions can be accounted for by the construal operations in the conceptualization process, eg. , attention, force dynamics and perspective. The article then classifies the idioms＇ four sets of metaphorical interpretations under the semantic mapping mechanism. Overall, the article reinforces the theory that spatial experience comes as the ultimate source for semantic representations and meaning is nothing but conceptualization.
出处
《外国语文》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第4期118-123,共6页
Foreign Languages and Literature
关键词
空间体验意象图式识解
隐喻
概念化
spatial experience
schematic image
construal operations
metaphor
conceptualization
