《红楼梦》中的方位隐喻现象分析

Analysis of Orientational Metaphors in Chinese——Based on the First Ten Chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions

方位隐喻是概念隐喻的一种,它借用空间位置来表达抽象概念。该文基于《红楼梦》前十回的语料分析了汉语中"上、下","高、低","深、浅","里、外"的方位隐喻现象,发现这些方位隐喻可以表达数量、地位、时间、情感、状态等抽象概念,它们既是人类认知的普遍现象,有些又极具汉语文化特色。

Orientational metaphor, which maps orientational concepts onto abstract ones, is one kind of conceptual metaphor. This paper mainly analyzes“Up (Shang)/Down (Xia)”,“High (Gao)/Low (Di)”,“Deep (Shen)/Shallow (Qian)”, and“In (Li)/Out (Wai)”metaphors occurred in Chinese based on the first ten chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions. These orientational metaphors can ex?press concepts of quantity, status, time, emotion, and state, and they are both universal and culturally different.