英语诗歌中爱情隐喻的研究_英语论文

Love Metaphors in English Poems

摘要

隐喻是一种特殊的语言现象，根据学者们的研究，它的历史可以追溯到两千多年以前。当下隐喻研究已越超传统研究范围，不再将隐喻仅仅视为一种语言修辞手段，而视其为人类的一种思维方式。正是由于隐喻的思维方式，人们可以通过一种事物去理解、描述和认识另一种事物。近年来，已经有不少的学者开始从认知的角度去认识诗歌中的隐喻，也包括爱情隐喻，而国内，对这一领域所做出的研究较少。本文旨在通过对诗歌中的各种隐喻的研究来更好地理解语言背后的认知模式，从而帮助人们更好地理解英语诗歌及其相关文化。

关键词：诗歌 认知语言学 隐喻 概念隐喻

Abstract

Metaphor has been taken as a part of the speech by the scholars for a long time and the studies on metaphors could be traced back to over 2000 years ago. Instead of just being a rhetorical part in the language, metaphors have influenced the thinking habit of people a lot. It is the metaphor thinking method that has endowed people with the capacity to know another new object by connecting it with something they have already known. Many linguists abroad have concentrated their studies on the connection between cognition and metaphors, including love metaphors. However, studies at home on this topic are quite limited. This paper has taken love metaphors as specific cases so that the paper could build up deeper understandings of the cognition pattern behind the metaphors and it would also improve people’s understanding on English poems and culture. 

Key Words: Poem, Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor, Conceptual Metaphor