英汉语食物隐喻比较

A Contrastive Analysis of the Similarities and Differences of Food Metaphors between English and Chinese

隐喻作为一种语言现象和认知现象,在日常生活中无处不在,英、汉语中都存在着大量与食物有关的隐喻性语言。以隐喻理论为基础,结合实例对比分析英汉食物隐喻异同,有助于深化对隐喻的认识、了解不同民族的语言文化内涵以及更好地促进跨文化交流。

As a kind of human linguistic and cognitive phenomenon, metaphor can be seen every-where in our daily life. There are abundant food metaphors both in English and Chinese. This paper, based on the theory of metaphor, makes a contrastive analysis of the similarities and differences of metaphors between English and Chinese. This study may be helpful in deepening the understand- ing of metaphor, understanding cultural connotations of moting cross-culture communication. languages of different nations and better pro-