隐喻手势语研究

Metaphoric Gesture Studies

隐喻手势语研究的兴起缘于手势认知研究、概念隐喻理论和多模态隐喻研究。通过研究隐喻手势,能够避免概念隐喻理论的循环论证,更为全面地考察隐喻思维,并真正体现隐喻思维的动态性。结合隐喻手势语的主要研究成果和近几年的发展趋势,本文归纳出隐喻手势的语言学研究、跨文化研究、多模态研究等七种主要研究方向,展现了这一领域的研究潜力。

Metaphoric gesture study is grounded upon cognitively-oriented gesture study,conceptual metaphor theory and multimodal metaphor study. Metaphoric gesture studies help avoid the circularity problem of conceptual metaphor theory,examine metaphor in a more comprehensive way,and truly reflect the dynamic nature of metaphor. This paper manifests seven major research directions of metaphoric gesture,mainly including the linguistic approach, the cross-cultural approach and the multimodal approach,which reveals its great research potential.