论隐喻语料库研究的目标、途径及方法

On the Objective, Approaches and Methods of Metaphor Corpus Studies

随着隐喻应用研究的深入,一种新颖的基于语料库的隐喻研究方法逐步引起认知隐喻学家和应用语言学家的关注。隐喻语料库研究目前还是一个相当年轻的领域,诸多问题仍有待厘清。因此,归纳总结目前隐喻语料库研究的总体目标、途径和方法,有利于拓宽隐喻实证研究的视角,促进隐喻的应用研究,完善隐喻语料库研究方法。

With more in-depth studies on metaphors,a new research method based on metaphor corpus is gradually drawing the attention of epistemological metaphor scholars and applied linguists.Metaphor corpus research is at present a relatively young area,a lot of problems still await to be clarified.Thus,summarizing and analyzing the overall objective,approaches and methods of the current studies on metaphor corpus helps to broaden the perspectives of impirical research of metaphors,to promote the applications of research findings and perfect the research methods of metaphor corpus.