英汉基本情感隐喻概念对比

A Contrastive Study of Basic English and Chinese Emotional Metaphor

情感是人类经验的重要组成部分,人的抽象情感在很大程度上是通过建立在人体感知基础之上的隐喻来表达的。人类共同的身体结构及生理特征,使得不同文化背景下的人们对情感隐喻有类似的表达;同时隐喻是以社会文化为基础的,中英文化的巨大差异又导致了其情感隐喻的不同。

As one important part of human experience, human emotions are mainly expressed metaphorically in language based on human perception. The common body structure and physical characteristics result in similar emotional metaphor expressions in different languages. On the other hand, metaphor is based on social culture. The great difference between Chinese and English culture will inevitably result in the difference of emotional metaphors in both languages.