摘要
隐喻是人们思维、行为和表达思想的方式。空间隐喻是人类语言中最重要、最基本的一个认知域。此研究从空间隐喻和原型范畴理论的角度出发,并结合使用英语国家语料库检索"up",对语料进行词频和搭配的研究。重点探讨英语中"up"分别沿着哪些隐喻义拓展,换言之,就是要找出哪些抽象概念是通过"up"来构建的,即分析探索其原型意义(空间意义)及边缘意义(隐喻意义)和它们之间的拓展过程。通过对真实语料的分析初步得出下述结论:(1)up主要用以构建4个目标域,即状态、动作、数量、方向;(2)up通常与好的事物相连如表示状态振作向上,事物的完成或结束状态,靠近,数量增加,方向向北(重要)。
Metaphors can be regarded as a means of expressing thought and act.Spatial metaphors is also the most basic and important cognitive domain.This research deals with expansion of ＂up＂ as well as frequencies and collocation of ＂up＂ from the perspective of spatial metaphors and prototype theory,with the help of BNC corpus.In other words,it focuses on the prototypical meaning,extended meaning as well as their cognitive process of how the spatial meanings are extended to metaphorical meanings.In conclusion,＂up＂ are used to construct four target domain named state、action、number、direction.What＇s more,＂up＂ is connected with good things such as high state,approach,completion of affair,accretion in number and important direction.
出处
《宜春学院学报》
2011年第2期152-156,184,共6页
Journal of Yichun University
基金
杭州师范大学学校创新基金项目
