英汉语“风”概念隐喻的体验认知研究

An Experiential Cognitive Study on the Conceptual Metaphors of Wind Between English and Chinese

风与人类生活紧密相连,在人类认识世界、形成抽象概念的过程中发挥着重要作用。基于丰富语料,本文从体验认知角度对英汉语风概念隐喻进行了系统的对比分析。研究发现:1)风概念隐喻的投射及其语义引申均以人们对风的特征的体验感知为基础,表现出一种"现实—认知—语言"的发展规律;2)风概念的隐喻投射范围扩展到人类行为和社会评价等概念域上;3)相比之下,英汉语风概念的隐喻投射同异相当,反映出人类对事物进行概念化过程具有复杂性和多向性。

The concept of wind shares a close relationship with human life and plays a vital role in the process of constructing people＇ s abstract concepts. From the experiential cognitive perspective, this article compares the metaphorical scopes of the concept of wind in English and Chinese, based on rich language evidences. It is found that the metaphorical mappings and seconcept of wind in English and Chinese, based on rich language evidences. It is found that the metaphorical mappings and se- mantic extensions of wind are based on the prototypical features of wind resulting from people＇ s experience and interaction with wind which presents the spreading procedure of ＂reality-cognition-language expression＂; the metaphorical scope covers such coneeptual domains as human behavior, social judgment and ect. ; the metaphorical mappings of wind in English and Chinese manifest similar quantity of differences and similarities, reflecting the complication and diversity of human＇ s conceptualization.