英汉词汇中的动物隐喻研究_英语论文

Animal Metaphor in English and Chinese Vocabulary

摘要

语言是人类相互交流的最重要的方式之一，而词汇则是语言的基础，中国人母语的词汇的隐喻意思有很多，同样，在英语词汇中，也有很多隐喻，同一种事物在不同的文化背景、地域范围和社会阶级都中有不同的隐喻，这让很多学者有时候感到很混乱，本书将通过中英文中有关动物的词汇来分析隐喻，主要是通过对两种不同语言的文化背景及词汇来源的对比来进一步分析，旨在让学者对隐喻机制以及结构隐喻，方位隐喻和本体隐喻有一个系统的理解，从而能更好地掌握中英文动物词汇的各种隐喻，更好地把握两种语言的文化。

 此外，本书也通过大量的例子来分析说明中英文动物词汇隐喻的联系和区别。首先对中文动物词汇的隐喻开始，通过词汇的结构隐喻，方位隐喻和本体隐喻来分析在文中的动物词汇的各种隐喻，随后又从同样的三方面对英语动物词汇分析。通过先分后总的结构，更能清楚明白的阐述中英文动物词汇隐喻含义的联系和区别，这对实际运用也更加有帮助。

关键词：隐喻；结构隐喻；方位隐喻；本体隐喻；动物隐喻

Abstract

Language is one of the most important methods of human communication, and vocabulary is the basis of language. Chinese vocabularies have various metaphor meanings, while English vocabularies have many metaphor meanings too. The same objects have different metaphor meanings in different cultures, geography and social class and so on, which makes many scholars confused. The method in this research is a contrastive study, according to which we are going to make a contrastive of the animal metaphors between English and Chinese to achieve the goal of this research. The purpose of this paper is to make scholars have a better knowledge about mechanism of metaphor, structural metaphor, orientational metaphor and ontological metaphor, from which the scholars can have a better understanding of animal metaphor meanings both in English and Chinese.

Key words: Metaphor Structural, Metaphor, Orientational Metaphor,  Ontological Metaphor, animal metaphor