隐喻和转喻在马来语颜色词语义扩展中的应用

Application of Metaphor and Metonymy in the Semantic Expansion of Color Words in Malay

马来语属于南岛语系马来-波利尼西亚语族,它吸收了多种外来语言的词汇,其颜色词的语义也颇为丰富。隐喻和转喻是认知语言学的重要理论,在马来语颜色词语义扩展中,隐喻、转喻的使用现象非常普遍,本文拟用隐喻和转喻理论来分析马来语中颜色词的语义扩展,希望能对类型学的跨语言研究以及跨文化的语言教学有一定的帮助。

The Malay language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian family. Having absorbed a variety of foreign language vocabulary,the semantics of its color words is rather rich. Metaphor and metonymy are the important theories in cognitive linguistics. The use of metaphor and metonymy in the semantic expansion of the color words in Malay is very common. This article intends to use the theory of metaphor and metonymy to analyze the semantic expansion of the color words in Malay,hoping to have certain help in the cross language study from the perspective of linguistic typology and the cross cultural language teaching.