体认语言学视角下多模态隐喻漫画的跨文化比较研究

On cross-cultural comparison of multimodal metaphor caricatures based on embodied-cognitive linguistics

漫画是一种常用隐喻来描绘生活或时事的艺术形式。隐喻是人类思维所特有的认知形式。本文以体认语言学视角,具体从跨文化角度分析中美新冠病毒漫画中的概念隐喻机制,比较中美该类漫画多模态隐喻的异同及探究其中原因。研究发现,中美漫画多模态隐喻,在形式表达上的不同源自中美高低语境文化的影响,立足点的不同源自中美民族思维的影响;但在内容上具有较强相似性,其原因在于人类体认的共性、中美文化的相通性,以及人类命运共同体意识的增强。

Caricature is an art form mainly using metaphors to portray life or current news.Metaphor is a unique form of human cognition.Based on embodied-cognitive linguistics perspective,this paper cross-culturally analyzes the mechanism of conceptual metaphor in Covid-19 caricatures between China and the US,and explores the similarities and differences and their causes of these multimodal metaphors.The study finds that the differences in form originate from the influence of high and low contextual cultures,the different standing-points from the different thinking modes;while the strong similarity in content is based on the common sense of human embodied-cognition and the similarity of cultures,as well as the coming stronger consciousness of a community of shared future for mankind.