英汉词汇化情感隐喻探索的新模式——评《隐喻,词源和文化:基于语料库的探索和方法论反思》

A New Approach to Exploring LEMS in English and Chinese—Comments on Metaphor,Etymology,and Culture:A Corpus-based Exploratio and Methodological Reflection

概念隐喻理论自诞生之日起,就引起了认知语言学界的热评。莱氏的概念隐喻,主要关注语言的共时层面,对历时层面关注不够,在许多方面引发了争议。《隐喻,词源和文化:基于语料库的探索和方法论反思》采用比较词源学与比较互证的研究方法,利用英汉平行对应词汇隐喻语料库,从共时、历时的角度,对英汉词汇化隐喻进行了详尽的探讨,揭示了英汉两种语言中概念隐喻和隐喻词汇的文化理据。该书既是对概念隐喻理论的补充与修正,又是对词汇化隐喻研究的全新探索,将在语言教学、翻译和文化研究等领域产生重要影响。

Conceptual metaphor theory（CMT） motivates a lot of researches and has its significance in cognitive linguistics.It receives all kinds of challenges and impugnation in that it pays more attention to synchronic research of language and ignores the diachronic one.The book Metaphor,Etymology,and Culture：A Corpus？based Exploration and Methodological Reflection employs the methods of Comparative Etymology and Comparative Cross Motivation to explore lexicalized emotion metaphors（LEMS） in English and Chinese,based on the parallel lexical metaphor database.It explains the cultural motivations for conceptual metaphors and metaphorical lexes.This book proves a supplement and amendment to CMT as well as a new approach to the research of LEMS.The significance will be illustrated in other research fields such as language teaching,translation and cultural studies.