摘要
隐喻是一种语言现象,更是人类的一种认知现象,人类的思维就是建构在隐喻之上。可以说,隐喻是人类认识世界的主要方式。人类对自然的认知离不开隐喻;人类语言中也不乏关于自然的隐喻。常见的自然之隐喻有自然是人、自然是上帝写的书、自然是机器及其变体形式自然是仓库和地球是热力发动机、自然是母亲和自然是网等。这些隐喻揭示了不同时期的人类――自然关系及人类对自然的态度,并对我们具有重要的启示:隐喻可以影响并调整人类的生态意识,因此,语言研究者有责任并有义务设计新的隐喻,揭示人与自然和谐共生,并促进人们生态意识的培养。
As metaphor is more of a cognitive phenomenon than of a linguistic phenomenon, human thinking is founded on metaphors. Virtually, metaphor is the main means for people to apprehend the world. Integral to hu- man＇ s cognition of nature, metaphors abound in human language. The typical metaphors of nature in language are nature as a human, nature as a book written by God, nature as a machine （including its variants： nature as a storehouse and the Earth as a heat engine） , nature as Mother and nature as a web. These metaphors can reveal the human - nature relationships in different historical periods and human＇ s attitudes toward nature, offering the important inspiration that metaphors can influence and adjust human＇ s ecological awareness, so linguistic re- searchers have the obligation to devise new metaphors to reveal the harmonious coexistence between human and nature and to help cultivate human＇s ecological awareness.
出处
《安徽理工大学学报（社会科学版）》
2013年第2期61-64,共4页
Journal of Anhui University of Science and Technology:Social Science
基金
2012年度安徽省高校省级人文社会科学研究项目"现代汉语语篇的生态批评语言学研究"(SK2012B286)资助
关键词
自然之隐喻
人类――自然关系
启示
生态意识
metaphors of nature
human - nature relationship
inspiration
ecological awareness
