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1、ChinesemetaphorsofthinkingNINGYU*AbstractThisarticlestudiestwoofthefourspecialcases,namelyTHINKINGISMOVINGandTHINKINGISSEEING,thatconstitutethemetaphorsystemTHEMINDISABODYinChinese.Ananalysisoflinguisticdatasuggeststhatthesetwocon-ceptualmetaphorsaregro
2、undedinourcommonbodilyexperiencesofspatialmovementandvision.Itshowsthattheconceptualizationofmindandmentalactivitiesisfundamentallystructuredbymetaphorsconsistingofmappingsfromthedomainofbodyandbodilyexperiences.Itisfoundthat,whiletheChineseexpressionsu
3、nderanalysislargelyconformtotheconceptualmap-pingsoriginallyderivedfromlinguisticevidenceinEnglish(LakoffandJohnson1999),thereexistsadifferencebetweenthesetwolanguagesthatreflectsasignificantdifferencebetweentherelatedcultures.Thatis,West-erncultures’bi
4、narycontrastbetweentheheart,theseatofemotions,andthemind,thelocusofthoughts,doesnotexistintraditionalChineseculture,wheretheheartisconceptualizedashousingbothemotionsandthoughts.Itisacaseinwhichdifferentculturalmodelsinterpretthefunctioningofthemindandt
5、hebodydifferently.Keywords:thinking;conceptualmetaphor;linguisticmanifestation;bodilyexperience;culturalmodel;embodiedmind.1.IntroductionDuringthepasttwodecades,cognitivesciencehasseriouslychallengedthefundamentalassumptionthatmostofourthinkingaboutthew
6、orldislit-eral,directlycorrespondingtoanexternalreality.Theresultsofcognitivelinguisticstudiesshowthathumanmindsareembodied,andthinkingandreasoningarelargelymetaphoricalandimaginative,shapedbythehumanbody(e.g.,Gibbs1994;Johnson1987;Lakoff1987;LakoffandJ
7、ohnsonCognitiveLinguistics14–2/3(2003),141–1650936–5907/03/0014–0141©WalterdeGruyter142N.Yu1980,1999).AshasbeendemonstratedinEnglishandotherIndo-Europeanlanguages,thecentralmetaphoraboutthemindandthinkingisTHEMINDISABODY(Sweetser1990;seealsoJäkel1995;Ra
8、dden1996;Turner1991;etc.),whichisametaphorsystemwithfourspecialcases:(1)THINKINGISMOVING,(2)THINKINGISPERCEIVING,(3)THINKINGISOBJECTMANIPULATION,and(4)ACQUIRINGIDEASISEATING(LakoffandJohnson1999).1TheMINDASBODYmetaphorconsistsofs
