摘要
认知语言学认为人通过身体感知外界,用隐喻和转喻的认知机制构建概念系统。本文研究发现,英汉成语中的口腔词主要指向"言辞、表情、年龄、进食"等与生活密切相关但抽象性较强的目标域。涉及的认知机制多为转喻,也有隐喻,两者有时共同发生作用。人们通过口腔器官对外部世界的认识,更多地指向与自身邻近的概念域。
According to Cognitive Linguistics, our mind is inherently embodied, and our conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical. This paper explores four mouth organs in Chinese and English idioms. It is found that, despite the cognitive and cultural preference, most of the mouth organ idioms are mapped onto the domains which are closely related to our daily life yet rather abstract. Metonymy plays a more important role than metaphor in the construction of the conceptual system of mouth organs in the idioms, but these two are also interwoven in some cases.
关键词
转喻
隐喻
口腔词
英汉成语
metonymy
metaphor
body - part terms
English and Chinese idioms
