汉日有关犬惯用语的隐喻比较

Metaphorical Comparison for the Chinese and Japanese Dog-Related Idioms

在汉日语中有许多与犬相关的惯用语。这些惯用语大多是以隐喻的形式来表达人们对周围事物的认识或看法。本文通过抽取汉日语中与犬相关的惯用语,分别从数量、所投射的目标域和隐喻意义的感情色彩三个角度,对汉日有关犬的惯用语的隐喻进行了对比,并简析了造成汉日有关犬惯用语差异的历史文化传统及意识形态等因素。

There are many dog- related idioms both in Chinese and Japanese. These idioms are mostly based on the form of a metaphor to express understanding or view about things around. By extracting the dog - relat- ed idioms in Chinese and Japanese, the present article compared the metaphor of them from three angles, namely the angle of numbers, the angle of the projected target domain as well as the emotional color of those metaphorical meanings. Meanwhile, brief analysis is made to explore the cultural and historical as well as the ideological factors which may cause differences between the dogrelated idioms in Chinese and Japanese.