基于语料库的英汉概念隐喻对比——以taste,chew,swallow为例

Contrastive Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in English and Chinese Based on Corpus——Take taste, chew, swallow as an example

本文通过语料库的研究方法,在语料库中对与"吃"有关的三个动作"尝、嚼、吞"和"taste,chew,swallow"进行频率统计,并从社会文化角度分析中英异同。研究表明英汉关于"吃"的隐喻意义相似也有不同。

This paper through corpus based approach, in the corpus of frequency statistics and 'eat' the action 'taste,chew, swallow and' taste, chew and swallow ', and from social and cultural perspective analysis of similarities and differences in Chinese and English. The study shows that there is a difference between English and Chinese on the metaphorical meaning of 'eating'.