Analysis of Grammatical metaphor in popular words英语论文

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1、AnalysisofGrammaticalmetaphorinpopularwordsAbstractThispaperstudiesthegrammaticalmetaphorinpopularwords.Fromthepopularwordsweknowthatanysentencesorwordsareproducedbygrammaticalmetaphor.Tostartwith,thethesisintroducestheconceptofgrammaticalmetaphor,the

2、conceptofmetaphoricalmeaning,andtheconceptofcongruentmeaning.Thenitshowsthatgrammaticalmetaphorisacognitivephenomenonthroughthepopularword“雷”。Bystudythepopularword“打酱油”，wefindthatgrammaticalmetaphorisakindofsemanticgeneralization.Keywords：grammaticalm

3、etaphor;cognitivephenomenon;semanticgeneralization;popularwordsI.IntroductionThethesisaimstomakeananalysisofgrammaticalmetaphorinpopularwords,intendingtofindouthowthepopularwordspopularityexploitgrammaticalmetaphorisacognitivephenomenon.Throughtheanal

4、ysisofgrammaticalmetaphorinpopularwords,thethesisalsoillustratesthatonefunctionofgrammaticalmetaphorisakindofsemanticgeneralization.Thenwefindthatgrammaticalmetaphoristheexpressionofameaningthroughalexico-grammaticalformthatoriginallyevolvedtoexpressa

5、differentkindofmeaning.Theexpressionofthemeaningismetaphoricalinrelationtoadifferentwayofexpressingthe‘same’meaning,whichwouldbemorecongruent.II.LiteratureReview2.1TheConceptofgrammaticalmetaphorGrammaticalmetaphorhasalonghistory,whichdatedbackasearly

6、astheclassicalGreekandRomanperiodinEuropeandtheSpringandAutumnPeriodinChinainthesensethatthenamingofgrammaticalterminologywasinspiredbythemetaphorisationoftherealworld.Itwaswidelypracticedinthemedievalperiodbymetaphorizinggrammaticalcategoriestomeanph

7、enomenainvariousdomainsintherealworld.(HuZhuanglin)Afterasilenceofathousandyearsorso,todaygrammaticalmetaphorplaysaveryimportantroleinthelinguistic.Itmeansthepossibilityofre-settingtherelationshipsbetweenmeaningsandwordings,whichisacentralresourcefore

8、xpandingthemeaningpotentialoflanguage.Metaphorstudyalsohasahistoryofmorethantwothousandyears.ItcanbetracedbacktoAristotle.Thepreviousstudycanberoughlydividedintotwomajorparts:theclassicalviewsandthe20thcentury’sview.Aristotle’sinterpretationof