关于动物习语的概念隐喻形成机制

On the Mechanisms of Conceptual Metaphors Used in Animal Idioms

动物是与人类关系密切的朋友,在人与动物和谐相处的大环境下,产生很多与动物相关的语言现象,有关动物的习语就是最有利的印证。因此利用动物习语这一语言现象,结合认知学中的概念理论,解析所选动物习语中概念隐喻形成的机制,并分析其中的文化差异,以对今后关于动物的语言现象的研究有所启示。

Animals are the close friends of human beings,so there are lots of linguistic phenomena about animals in the harmonious relationship between human beings and animals,and idioms is one of the typical cases.So using the conceptual metaphor theory of cognitive linguistics,the paper analyzes the selected corpus of animal idioms and testify the procedure of the mechanisms of conceptual metaphors used in animal idioms and shed the light on the further study of linguistic phenomenon on animals.