认知视角下的英汉人体隐喻对比研究

Cognitive Study on Body Metaphors of English and Chinese

人体隐喻是隐喻的一种方式,是人类认识和感知世界的一种重要途径。人体隐喻通常隐藏于人类认知和思维的背后,是深处认知思维在词汇层面上的具体体现。从隐喻的定义和认知本质出发,考察了人体隐喻的特点及其认知本质,比较了英汉两种语言中人体隐喻的映射方式,并结合英汉语料,考察了英汉人体隐喻的映射情况和对应程度。

As one type of metaphors,human body metaphor is an important way for human beings’ cognition and perception of the outside world.Body metaphorized words are the concrete lexical reali-zation of thoughts of human vividly hidden in the depths of their mind.This article first investigates the characteristics and cognitive nature of body metaphor and then compares the mapping mode of hu-man body metaphors in English and Chinese,finally it studies the mapping situation and relevance of body metaphor in English and Chinese with linguistic data.