“高人”与“高手”的认知辨析

Cognitive Differentiation of GAO REN and GAO SHOU

文章主要从认知语言学视角,运用认知隐喻和认知转喻理论深入剖析了"高人"与"高手"的共有词义"技能高(超)的人"的衍生过程。即"高人"是经过隐喻机制(将始源域空间维度的"高"的元素映射到目标域"熟练的、超出一般程度的技能"之上)直接衍生出"技能高(超)的人"之义,而"高手"则是先经过转喻机制("手"转喻拓展为"人")再经过隐喻机制衍生此义。

This paper, starting from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, explores deeply into the derivation processes of the same meaning of expert and master shared by GAO REN and GAO SHOU with metaphor and metonymy theory. The meaning of expert and master is a direct derivation of GAO REN through metaphorical mechanism, in which the connotation of the spatial dimension GAO in the source domain is mapped onto ＂skilled, beyond the general level of skills＂ in the target domain. Whereas, the same meaning shared by GAO SHOU derives by means of two mechanisms ： metonymical mechanism and metaphorical mechanism. In the first mecha- nism, SHOU/hand stands for REN/the man, and in the second, the meaning of ＂skilled, beyond the general level of skills＂ is de- rived.