儿童故事中的隐喻现象

On Metaphorin Children's Tales

现代概念隐喻理论认为,隐喻不只是一种修辞手段,也是人类的重要认知模式。隐喻的本质就是源域与目标域这两个观念域之间的跨域映射。在儿童故事中,主要存在着两种概念隐喻:PHYSICAL ENTITY IS PERSON和PERSON IS PHYSICAL ENTITY.通过对选取的儿童故事的实例分析,我们认为童话故事中的隐喻是无处不在的,关键在于译者和读者如何去解读它的喻体形象,从而分析它的本体形象,在深层意义上理解童话故事,找到它的整体性。

In the modern metaphor theory,metaphor is not only a rhetorical technique,and also an important cognitive model.The nature of metaphoris the cross-domain mapping between source domain and target domain.There are two main conceptual metaphors in children＇s tales：physical entity is person and person is physical entity.Through the case analysis from selected children＇s tales,we think that metaphoris everywhere.The key lies in the apprehension fortranslators and readers to interpret the metaphorobject so as to analyze its subject until one can understand deeply the tales and find its integrity.