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1、商务英语语篇中概念隐喻类型的认知研究ACognitiveStudyoftheTypesoftheConceptualMetaphorsinBusinessEnglishDiscourses摘要【摘要】隐喻研究已有两千多年历史。20世纪80年代莱考夫和约翰逊打破了传统隐喻概念只是一种修辞现象的看法，将其定义为用某一领域的经验来说明或理解另一领域经验的认知机制。本文在前人研究基础上，利用莱可夫概念隐喻理论通过具体分析其工作机制，特点与认知功能，引入商务英语语篇中概念隐喻现象进行系统完整的分类。大体分为三类：结构隐喻，方位隐喻和实体隐喻，并对每一类型加以分

2、析得出战争隐喻，健康隐喻，婚姻隐喻，生物隐喻，水的隐喻，戏隐喻剧，容器隐喻和拟人隐喻等具体分类。在此基础上，本文归纳得出四种最为常见的概念隐喻在商务环境中的应用和含义。本文的发现将作用于语言学本身的研究，促进商务经济的应用以及教学工作的进行。【关键词】概念隐喻；映射；商务英语语篇；分类ACognitiveStudyoftheTypesoftheConceptualMetaphorsinBusinessEnglishDiscourseAbstract【ABSTRACT]Thestudyofmetaphorhasbeencarriedonsincemor

3、ethantwothousandyearsago.Inthe1980s,LakoffandJohnsongaveamostprovocativelinguisticaccountofmetaphor,whichrancountertothetraditionalopinionthatmetaphorwasonlyafigureofspeechandentitleditwiththedefinitionthatitwasacognitivemechanismexplainingorunderstandingonethingintermsofexperi

4、encefromaparticularfieldtoanothe匚Onthebasisofpreviousresearch,thethesishereusestheconceptualmetaphorofLakoffandsubstantiallyanalyzestheworkingmechanismofconceptualmetaphor,itscharacteristicsandcognitivefunction,andgetamoreintegratedandsystematicclassificationoftheconceptualmeta

5、phorinthebusinessEnglishdiscourses・Itcanbemainlydividedintothreeclassifications:structuralmetaphor,oricntationalmetaphorandontologicalmetaphor,whichcanbespecifiedintowarandphysicalfightingmetaphor,healthmetaphor,loveandmarriagemetaphor,organismmetaphor,watermetaphor,dramametaph

6、or,containermetaphorandpersonificationmetaphorandsoon.Tliethesisthenindicates4mostfamiliarimplicationsandapplicationsoftheconceptualmetaphorsaboutthebusinessenvironment.Thefindingsinthethesiscanbeappliedtolinguisticsitself,internationaltradeandEnglishteaching・[KEYWORDS]conceptu

7、almetaphor;mappingprocess;businessEnglishdiscourse;classificationContents1Introduction11.1Previousstudyofmetaphor11.1.1TheComparisonTheoryofAristotle11.1.2TheSubstitutionTheoryofQuintilianus21.1.3TheInteractionTheoryofLA.RichardsandMaxBlack22.1.3・4Theclassificationofmetaphor31.

8、1.5TheConceptualMetaphorTheoryofGeorgeLakoffandMarkJoh