大学生时间隐喻表征实证研究

Is Time Positive or Negative?——An Empirical Study on the Metaphorical Representation of Time among College Students

采用实证方法对大学生时间隐喻表征问卷的数据进行内容分析和因子分析,对这一青年群体的时间认知概念结构进行深入梳理,归纳得出3个大类,并获得了6个因子,发现了另一个空间元素"位移方式"在时间表征中的重要作用,以及时间隐喻中"积极"和"消极"的两分对立,推动了基于调查量表的时间隐喻研究。

Researches on the metaphorical representation of time are still inadequate now. The study tries to find out college students＇ cognitive metaphor structure of time through content analysis and factor analysis of the data collected by time metaphor questionnaires. Altogether, three categories are outlined and six factors are obtained. Besides, the analysis shows that another spatial element--move- ment form--also plays an important role in the cognitive representation of time, and the positive and negative metaphors of time are op- posed to each other. These results can serve as the basis for further research on time metaphor.