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1、基于认知视角剖析英汉时间隐喻现象----英语毕业论文-->基于认知视角剖析英汉时间隐喻现象从古代到现在,隐喻作为一种修辞手段,一直是一个热门话题,因而备受关注。许多哲学家和语言学家,认知主义者认为,隐喻是不止一个比喻,是一种的思维方式,人类认识和理解抽象的东西,特别是英汉时间中的隐喻.....IntroductionFromancienttimetillnoetaphor,asarhetoricaldevice,hasbeenahottopicandthusattractedmuchattentionfromman
2、yphilosophersandlinguists.Cognitivistsholdthatmetaphorismorethanafigureofspeech,andisamodeofthought,byanbeingsrecognizeandunderstandabstractthings.Thereisacloserelationshipbetetaphorandhumanbeings'thoughtasongthemthemostimportantareInteractionTheory(Richards,1
3、936;Black,1979,1985),SpeechActTheory(Sean,1979),Salience-imbalanceTheory(Ortony,1979,1985),StructureMappingTheory(Gentner,1989),Class-inclusionTheory(GlucksbergKeysar,1990),ConceptualMetaphorTheory(LakoffJohnson,1980;Gibbs,1990),SimilarityCreatingTheory(Indurk
4、haya,1992)andRelevanceTheory(Sperberongthesetheories,theconceptualmetaphortheoryisthemostrevolutionaryandthemostinfluentialone.Itthoroughlyoverthroanycontemporaryscholars,andputsforetaphor.Firstly,languagesshouldberesearchedinstatisticstoconformthattheabstract
5、thoughtsarepartiallyexpressedbymetaphoringeneral.Secondly,conceptualmetaphorsystemhasnotonlygeneralitiesbutalsorelativities.Ononehand,humanbeings'cognitionisrootedinthedailyexperiencesanddifferentnationshavemonexperiencesabouttheetaphorsystemsindifferentcultur
6、eshavedifferencesbecausetheirdailyexperiencescannotexistoutsidetheiroustbeinfluencedbyeverynation'suniquecultureandvalue.Hoetaphoricalsystemsindifferentcultureandsocietyisaquestiontoansstoputconceptualmetaphorintocross-culturalfield.BasedonLakoff'sconceptualme
7、taphortheoryandhisphilosophyofexperientialism,conceptualmetaphorsystemsbothinEnglishandChinesearestudiedinsomeprincipleaspects.Thepurposeofthestudyistofindoutthesimilaritiesanddifferencesthatexistinthetetaphoricalsystemsandthereasonsthatcausethesimilaritiesand
8、thedifferences.Thus,therelationshipsbetetaphorsystemandlanguage,culture,nationalpsychologyandthoughtarediscussedindeeplevel,andsomestrategiesareputforisunderstandingsaridfailuresin