摘要
隐喻是人类普遍的一种思维方式和认知手段,而不是一种语言现象、一种修辞格。是人们根据自己的身体经验利用已知事物去理解未知、抽象的事物的一种过程。英语中的一词多义现象就是人类通过认知手段由一个词的中心意义或基本意义向其他意义的延伸,隐喻认知对多义词的形成起着无可替代的作用。
metaphor is not a linguistic phenomenon or a rhetorical style, but it is a powerful cognitive tool for our conceptualization of abstract categories. According to the physical experience people understand unknown objects by known things. Polysemy in English language is a process from a base meaning to other ones by cognitive tool of human beings The cognition of metaphor is the key to form polysemy.
出处
《天水师范学院学报》
2006年第3期111-113,共3页
Journal of Tianshui Normal University
关键词
隐喻
身体经验
认知手段
一词多义
metaphor
physical experience
cognitive tool
polysemy
