摘要
认知语言学认为隐喻是人类基本的认知活动,而空间隐喻在人类的认知活动中扮演着重要的角色,许多抽象概念都必须通过空间隐喻来构建。本研究使用英国国家语料库检索high和low,旨在通过对真实语料的分析,找出high和low的拓展隐喻义、隐喻拓展方向及其认知基础。语料分析表明,high和low主要用以构建5个目标域,即数量、状态、等级、时间和感官。
Cognitive linguistics holds that metaphor is a basic cognitive activity in humans' daily life, and that spatial metaphor plays an important role in our cognition and many abstract concepts are constructed through spatial metaphor. The present research is intended to study the metaphorical extension of'high'and'low'and explore their cognitive basis by searching them in the British National Corpus. The authentic data in the corpus indicate that'high'and'low'are projected onto five target domains, namely, quantity, state, status, time and sensation.
出处
《解放军外国语学院学报》
北大核心
2003年第5期27-31,共5页
Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages
基金
华中科技大学2001年校文科基金项目(编号:BJ41-021)
关键词
英语
空间隐喻
语料库
目标域
English
spatial metaphor
corpus
target domain
