视觉表征维度下道德隐喻的结构解析

The Hierarchical Analysis of Visualized Moral Metaphors

近几年来,道德隐喻成为认知语言学研究的热点问题,道德隐喻的种类和结构分析构成这些研究的两大核心问题。以颜色、明亮度、清晰度、洁净度和纯洁度这些视觉范畴为维度研究道德隐喻是一个新颖的视角。在莱考夫和约翰逊基本隐喻综合理论的基础上,采用分解分析法解构视觉表征维度的道德隐喻,有助于明晰潜藏在视觉表征背后的道德隐喻深层认知过程。研究结果表明,"道德是明/不道德是暗"、"道德是洁/不道德是污"这两组道德隐喻在道德隐喻子系统中处于更核心的地位,作为意义建构基础的基本隐喻与人们的常识和文化知识一起构成更高层级的复杂隐喻。

Moral metaphor has become a research focus of cognitive linguistics in recent years.The categories and hierarchical analysis of moral metaphors are the core issues.Studying moral metaphors grounded in our visual experience is a fresh angle.Based on the Integrated Theory of Primary Metaphor put forward by Lakoff and Johnson,deconstructing visualized moral metaphors using decomposition analysis helps to figure out the deep cognitive process of moral metaphors.The study shows that MORAL IS LIGHT/IMMORAL IS DARK and MORAL IS CLEAN/IMMORAL IS DIRTY are more central than the others in the subsystem.As the foundation of meaning construction,primary metaphor comprises a higher-level complex metaphor with people's common sense and cultural knowledge.