摘要
味觉是人类最基本、最重要的感知能力之一,味觉隐喻在人类的认知活动中起着举足轻重的作用,许多抽象的概念都是通过味觉隐喻构建的。本文基于大量语料,从概念隐喻的视角,探讨"甜"和"sweet"隐喻化的共性和个性,总的来说,相似性大于差异性。通过进一步分析,证实了味觉范畴隐喻存在着认知与体验的普遍性和文化的差异性。
Taste has been one of the most basic and important sense of human beings in perceiving the world. Taste metaphor is an indispensable tool for us to construct the outside world, by which we can conceptualize many abstract categories. Based on the conceptual metaphor and the data of taste, this research aims to explore the similarities and differences of metaphors of ＂Tian＂ and ＂sweet＂. Similarities are more pervasive than its differences. Exploring deeply, this research reinforces taste metaphors are characterized by cognitive universality and cultural relativity.
关键词
味觉隐喻
甜
英汉对比
映射
taste metaphor
sweet （Tian）
comparisons
mapping
