温度与亮度:巴金《寒夜》的概念隐喻内蕴探微

Temperature and Brightness:Exploring the Conceptual Metaphorical Connotation of Ba Jin’s“The Cold Night”

隐喻不仅是修辞手段,也是认知方式。巴金的小说《寒夜》隐喻丰沛,内蕴丰富。文章分类提取小说中有意施为的温度与亮度相关的始源域,进行类型分析和必要的文本统计,对巴金隐喻思维的映射过程进行初步描述,继而揭示小说中温度、亮度隐喻的本体域与喻源域应用到文学文本时所产生的跨域性张力与多维的艺术技巧。在此基础上,进一步考察《寒夜》的意象图式,揭示巴金小说隐喻思维的认知构建,为探究巴金小说的人物情感、时代特征以及文本寓意提供新的理论视镜。

Metaphor is not only a rhetorical device,but also a cognitive approach.Ba Jin’s novel“The Cold Night”has rich metaphors and connotations.The article categorizes and extracts the intentional temperature and brightness related origin domains in the novel,conducts type analysis and necessary text statistics,and provides a preliminary description of the mapping process of Ba Jin’s metaphorical thinking.Furthermore,it reveals the cross domain tension and multidimensional artistic techniques that arise when the ontological and metaphorical source domains of temperature and brightness metaphors in the novel are applied to literary texts.On this basis,further examination of the imagery schema in“The Cold Night”reveals the cognitive construction of metaphorical thinking in Ba Jin’s novels,providing a new theoretical perspective for exploring the characters’emotions,temporal characteristics,and textual meanings in Ba Jin’s novels.