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1、DifferencesinMetaphorbetweenChineseandWesternCultureAbstract:Metaphororiginatesfrompeople’slives,andplaysaveryimportantroleinpeople’slives.Metaphorisnowadaysnotonlyregardedasafigureofspeechbutalsoanimportanttoolinculturecommunication.Thisthesistriestoexplore
2、somedifferencesinmetaphorbetweenChineseandWesternculture,andthushelpsinthepromotionoftheculturecommunicationbetweenChineseandWesterncountries.Keywords:metaphor;Westernculture;Chineseculture摘要：隐喻来源于生活，并在人们的生活中扮演着十分重要的角色。现在隐喻不仅仅被认为是一种修辞手段，同时还是一种重要的文化交流手段。本文试图在
3、宏观和微观上探讨中西方文化之间的隐喻差异，从而进一步推进中西方文化之间的文化交流。关键词：隐喻;西方文化;中国文化1．IntroductionMetaphororiginatesfrompeople’slives,andplaysaveryimportantroleinpeople’slives.Nowadays,thedefinitionsofmetaphorcanbefoundconvenientlyindictionaries.AccordingtotheWebster’sNewWorldDictiona
4、ry,metaphorisdefinedas:“afigureofspeechinwhichonethingislikenedtoanother,differentthingbybeingsspokenofasifitweretheother;impliedcomparison,inwhichawordorphraseordinarilyandprimarilyuseofonethingisappliedtoanother.”(Webster’sNewWorldDictionary,1979:1132)Meta
5、phorisusedasarhetoricaldevicewhichmakescomparisonbetweentwoelements,unlikesimile,thiskindofcomparisonisimpliednotstated.PeterNewmarkreferredtometaphoras:“thetransferredsenseofaphysicalword;thepersonificationofabstraction;theapplicationofawordorcollocationtow
6、hatitdoesnotliterallydenote,i.e.todescribeonethingintermsofanother.”(Newmark,2001:104)Metaphorshowsaresemblancebetweentwosimilarthings,whichmeansimageandobject.Incognitivelinguistics,itisdefinedasthetargetdomainandsourcedomain.Similarityisthebasisofmetaphor.
7、Forexample,“thestarsinhiseyes”,thebasisfortheuseof“stars”isthesimilaritybetweenthetearsinone’seyesandtheflickeringoflightinone’seyes.BothEnglishandChineseareaboundinusingmetaphors.Butdifferentmetaphorsmaybeunderstoodindifferentcultures.Thatistosay,metaphoris
8、culture-specific.WemayhavedifferentkindsofmetaphorsinChineseandWesterncultures.Metaphorsweusearedeterminedbyourlifeexperience,sometaphoricalexpressionsarisefromourphysicalandcultureexperience.Th
