关于词汇的隐喻语际迁移的研究_英语论文

A Research on Word Migration in Metaphor

摘要

隐喻在英语学习和交流中有着非常重要的作用，关于这方面的研究也很多。但是语际迁移是个比较复杂的课题，大多数研究者所做的研究也比较复杂高深。本文从大学生运用隐喻性词汇的多少和对隐喻的语际迁移现象的了解来分析，隐喻是否和大学生的英语水品有着一定的关联。我们设计了一套关于隐喻的试卷来测试大四学生的隐喻水品和能力。从隐喻中选取比较常见的名词性隐喻动词性隐喻和介词性隐喻来考察。实验的目的是了解大学生对隐喻词汇的了解和应用程度与英语水平是否有联系，掌握好隐喻方法是否对英语学习是否有促进作用。

关键词:隐喻   词汇   关联

Abstract

More than 30 years ago, researches on metaphor have become a hot topic in SLA research area. It is known that metaphor can be seen as a thinking style, which is widely used in our daily life. Metaphor has a very important role in English learning. Many researches have been done in this area from home and abroad. This study analyses the links between metaphor and college students’ English proficiency level. In this study, 20 English majors were invited to do a test concerning metaphor. By analyzing the results, this study found that knowing metaphor is beneficial to L2 learners’ vocabulary learning. It could be also found that college students are familiar with noun metaphors and verb metaphors but they know little about preposition metaphors. In addition, students of higher-English proficiency level mastered metaphor better than students of lower-English proficiency did.

Keywords: metaphor   vocabulary   migration