具身认知视角下汉语二语情感词的空间隐喻

Spatial Metaphors of CSL Affective Concepts: An Embodied Cognition Perspective

本文在具身认知的视角下,考察了马来西亚留学生汉语二语情感词的空间隐喻特征,并与其母语情感词的空间隐喻特征进行了对比。结果发现:垂直方向上,汉语二语情感词与马来语情感词的加工都激活了上下空间意象图式,出现了"上好下坏"的空间隐喻现象;水平方向上,汉语二语情感词的加工未激活水平空间意象图式,没有出现水平空间隐喻,但马来语情感词的加工激活了水平空间意象图式,出现了"部分水平空间隐喻"现象。本文从文化图式的角度对汉语二语情感词和马来语情感词的空间隐喻的异同进行了分析和讨论。

This article investigates the features of spatial metaphors of Malaysian CSL learners’ L2 affective concepts from the perspective of embodied cognition, and compares the features with those of Malaysian affective concepts. The results show that both L1 and L2 affective concepts activate up-down image schemas, resulting in the spatial metaphor HAPPY IS UP, SAD IS DOWN. CSL affective concepts do not activate horizontal image schemas, thus no horizontal spatial metaphor. But Malay affective concepts activate horizontal image schemas and partial horizontal spatial metaphors are found. From the perspective of cultural schema, this article discusses the similarities and differences between the spatial metaphors of affective concepts in Chinese as L2 and Malay as L1.