90年代后文化语境下歌词赖以生存的隐喻

Metaphors Lyrics Live by in Post 1990s under the Theory of Cultural Context

借助文化语境和概念隐喻理论对20世纪90年代以后的汉语和英语流行歌曲歌词进行分析,探求概念隐喻在歌词中出现的频率以及概念隐喻的使用与文化语境之间的关系。研究采用数据统计加个案研究的方法。研究表明,歌词中普遍存在概念隐喻,概念隐喻的使用与文化语境密切相关。

Starting from the cultural context theory and conceptual metaphor theory, this thesis analyses Chinese and English popu?lar song lyrics in post 1990s, intending to find how frequently conceptual metaphor appear in lyrics and the relationship between the adoption of conceptual metaphor and cultural context. The study adopts the method of statistics with case analysis. The result of the study indicates that conceptual metaphors exist in most of the song lyrics. Besides, a few special metaphors also exist in song lyrics. In addition, the adoption of conceptual metaphor is closely relevant with cultural context.