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1、中西方文化之间的隐喻差异DifferencesinMetaphorbetweenChineseandWesternCultureCONTENTS1.Introduction12.DifferencesinmetaphorbetweenChineseandWesternculture12.1Atthemacrolevel42.2Atthemicrolevel53.Conclusion7References7DifferencesinMetaphorbetweenChineseandWesternCultureAbstract:Metaphororigin
2、atesfrompeople’slives,andplaysaveryimportantroleinpeople’slives.Metaphorisnowadaysnotonlyregardedasafigureofspeechbutalsoanimportanttoolinculturecommunication.ThisthesistriestoexploresomedifferencesinmetaphorbetweenChineseandWesternculture,andthushelpsinthepromotionoftheculturec
3、ommunicationbetweenChineseandWesterncountries.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,andplaysav
4、eryimportantroleinpeople’slives.Nowadays,thedefinitionsofmetaphorcanbefoundconvenientlyindictionaries.AccordingtotheWebster’sNewWorldDictionary,metaphorisdefinedas:“afigureofspeechinwhichonethingislikenedtoanother,differentthingbybeingsspokenofasifitweretheother;impliedcompariso
5、n,inwhichawordorphraseordinarilyandprimarilyuseofonethingisappliedtoanother.”Webster’sNewWorldDictionary,1979:1132Metaphorisusedasarhetoricaldevicewhichmakescomparisonbetweentwoelements,unlikesimile,thiskindofcomparisonisimpliednotstated.PeterNewmarkreferredtometaphoras:“thetran
6、sferredsenseofaphysicalword;thepersonificationofabstraction;theapplicationofawordorcollocationtowhatitdoesnotliterallydenote,i.e.todescribeonethingintermsofanother.”Newmark,2001:104Metaphorshowsaresemblancebetweentwosimilarthings,whichmeansimageandobject.Incognitivelinguistics,i
7、tisdefinedasthetargetdomainandsourcedomain.Similarityisthebasisofmetaphor.Forexample,“thestarsinhiseyes”,thebasisfortheuseof“stars”isthesimilaritybetweenthetearsinone’seyesandtheflickeringoflightinone’seyes.BothEnglishandChineseareaboundinusingmetaphors.Butdifferentmetaphorsmayb
8、eunderstoodindifferentcultures.Thatistosay,meta
