史诗贝尔武夫中的水隐喻分析

The Analysis of Water Metaphor in Beowulf

作为最早的英语文学著作,史诗贝尔武夫写于公元10世纪,描述公元3-4世纪的斯堪的纳维亚半岛上人的社会生活。史诗中使用的是古英语,但该文分析的材料是现代英语的译本,译本中尽量保留了古英语中丰富的隐喻。该文意图从认知语言学角度出发,对史诗中的隐喻进行分类,分析和总结,让读者对其中所含的意象有更形象的了解和认知。Josef Stern(2000)在他的著作Metaphor in Context中提到,很多不同的元素可以相互联系,通过隐喻的方式相互表达出来。在该理论的基础上,该文将着重分析贝尔武夫史诗中的"水意象"隐喻,并分析构成隐喻关联的语言,文化和社会背景。

Abstracts:As the earliest English literature, the epic Beowulf was written in 10th century, describing the lives of Scandinavians in 3th and 4th century. The language used in the epic is old English, but the original text applied in this article is the modern English translation, which has preserved most metaphors in old English version. The article intends to analyze and categorize these meta-phors from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, in order to give the readers a better understanding of the images used in the epic. Josef Stern has mentioned in his works in 2000 that various elements can interact and express each other through meta-phors; based on this theory, the article mainly focuses on the“water”metaphor in Beowulf, analyzes the formation of meta-phors, as well as the cultural and social background.