隐喻与外语教学中的文化教学

Metaphor and Cultural Teaching in Foreign Language Teaching

隐喻是带有文化意义的语言表达形式,它在语言与文化之间架起了一座桥梁,用隐喻实施文化教学是外语教学中文化教学的一条可行途径。教师应注重培养学生的隐喻能力,用隐喻整合离散的语言与文化现象,让学生了解不同语言隐喻文化的同质性及异质性,提升他们对语言、文化和认知三者关系的敏感性,实现这三者的良性互动,这亦是外语教学中文化教学的价值旨归。

Metaphor is the expression form of language with cultural significance. It builds a bridge between language and culture. Using metaphor to implement cultural teaching is a feasible way of cultural teaching in foreign language teaching. Teachers should focus on cultivating students’ metaphorical abilities, use metaphors to integrate discrete language and cultural phenomena, so that students can understand the homogeneity and heterogeneity of metaphorical cultures in different languages, and improve their sensitivity to the relationship between language, culture, and cognition. To realize the benign interaction of these three is also the purpose of cultural teaching in foreign language teaching.