cognitive study of building metaphor建筑隐喻认知探究

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1、CognitiveStudyofBuildingMetaphor建筑隐喻认知探究　　【Abstract】Metaphorisauniversalphenomenon.Traditionallymetaphorisseenasasameansofrhetoric，butnowitisseenasacognitivephenomenon.Inourlifemostoftheeverydaylanguageismetaphor，ourmindisalsothemetaphor.Metaphorhasbecomeanindispensabletoolforunderstandingtheworld

2、.Therearealotof“building”metaphoricalexpressionsinlife，asconstructionisanimportantcomponentofpeople’slives.Butthestudiesofbuildingmetaphorshavenotbeensystematicandcomprehensive.Thisthesisgivesacontrastivestudyofbuildingmetaphorstodeepenpeople’sunderstandingofbuildingmetaphorsandenrichthecognitives

3、tudiesofmetaphor.【Keywords】metaphor，cognitivephenomenon，buildingmetaphor1.Researchmethod1.1DatacollectionInthisthesisamethodofcorpusqualitative9analysiswillbeadopted.CambridgeAdvancedLearner’sDictionary；OxfordAdvancedLearner’English-ChineseDictionaryofCurrentEnglish；InternationaldictionaryofEnglis

4、h，concreteprogramsandmeasurestobetakenareasfollows：（1）Professionaltoolstoidentifythebasictermsandconceptson“building”inEnglishandChinese.（2）Basictermsandconceptson“building”inEnglishaskeywordsofthecorpusabove，andretrievingtheexpressioncorpusrelatingtothesetermsandconcepts.（3）Selectingthecorpuscoll

5、ectedtofindoutmetaphoricalexpressionson“building”inEnglish.Therearemanyapproachestometaphor：philosophicalapproach，pragmaticapproach，cognitiveapproach，etc.Inthispaper，theauthormainlyappliescognitiveapproachestostudytheprocessofunderstandingmetaphors.1.2DataanalysisTherearemanymetaphoricalexpression

6、saboutbuildingmetaphor“Lifeisbuilding，theoriesarebuildings，relationshipsarebuildings，”togetaclearanalysisaboutthem，theauthorchoosessome9typicalbuildingmetaphorsthatpeoplearefamiliarwith，bysummarizingthesemetaphoricalexpressions，identifyingtheconceptualmetaphorswhichwerehiddenbehindthem，andcomparin

7、gandstudyingtheseconceptualmetaphors.Innextsection，theauthorwillanalyzethesemetaphoricalexpressions.2.BuildingMetaphor2.1LifeisabuildingLifeisabuilding.Wedependonhard-workandsweat，asabrickandwatts，tobuild.Whenwew