TCM Viscera Theory Of Conceptual Metaphor Based Research

With the development of cognitive linguistics, metaphor study has become the focus of research topic in cognitive linguistics and cognitive paradigm. In recent years, the study of metaphor has become like a raging fire, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, literary criticism, translation, semiotics research object of many subjects from traditional rhetoric, more and more scholars have tried to explore the nature, function and the working mechanism of metaphor from a multidisciplinary perspective. The study shows that from the natural sciences, social sciences and so on metaphor, people more and more realize the metaphor can not be underestimated role in human cognitive process. In fact, cognitive linguistics has the characteristics of cross research with other disciplines, metaphor theory for the research of the language and concepts of Chinese medicine to provide a unique and fresh perspective. The research team led by Professor Jia Chunhua in recent years, the research view towards Chinese conceptual metaphor and Chinese metaphor."The Chinese language is a language based on cognitive metaphor", and by means of cognitive metaphor for the pathogenesis of Chinese medicine, the theory of the five elements is studied, made a lot of achievements. Traditional Chinese medicine development, traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to combine, must span across the gap between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine--language. Viscera is the core of human life, whether Chinese or western medicine will simply organs as the life activities of the human body. But both in the understanding of the internal organs and physiological pathology is different, for example, the modern concept of traditional Chinese medicine "bladder" explanation completely and Western medicine organ "bladder" should be relative, and its physiological function is storing and excreting urine. And Su Wen Ling LAN secret code "," said:"the bladder, state officials, Tsu Hide Yan, gasification can out.""After" the bladder to "state","fluid", can hide with "gasification" function, meaning clearly TCM "bladder" concept than western medicine "bladder" much more abundant. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, TCM cognition on human physiology and pathology of the Zang Fu organs is based on metaphor, or cognitive metaphor in the viscera system has played an irreplaceable role.The theory of Zangxiang is about viscera morphological structure, physiological function, pathological changes and the relationship between the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine theory, is the core component, is based on the treatment of clinical syndrome differentiation. The theory is the ancient physicians in the long-term medical practice and master the basic knowledge of anatomy of the human body, extensive use of analogy, analysis, deduction and other ways of thinking, the highly generalization and abstraction and gradually formed, is the crystallization of human experience."Analogy" thinking in the process play a crucial role in the construction of the viscera theory, is the basic mode of thinking. In the process of knowledge system "image than application class" thinking is one of the important factors that generate the "conceptual metaphor", analogy process is the application characteristics of Siwon domain depicted as features of the target domain of typical metaphorical thinking. Because of this, the viscera theory is full of a lot of "metaphorical concept" or "conceptual metaphor". Such as "the heart, the monarch, the gods out of Yan","liver, Oriental wood","liver","the stomach for the valley of the sea water","six classics of Sichuan" and so on, in this class, be too numerous to enumerate. On one hand, these metaphorical statement for the viscera theory to add new content, but on the other hand also for the Chinese medicine theory as difficulty of interpretation and modern research has great. In view of the "metaphor for understanding the human experiences of the world provides specific ways" in this thesis, the author attempts to apply the conceptual metaphor theory into the viscera theory study, with a view to the viscera theory into the research of new ideas.The text is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is to hide elephant research theory, mainly from the theoretical, experimental and more interdisciplinary perspective, theory of Zangxiang construction process, construction of the focus and difficulty of the theory of Zangxiang theory as the basic way of thinking, Tibetan and other comb. The second chapter is the conceptual metaphor Zang language research based on, is divided into four sections, the first section reviews the research background of cognitive linguistics, introduction to the conceptual metaphor history; section second mainly discusses the viscera of conceptual metaphor types, functions, features, the third section from the metaphorical cognition and theory point of view, to five lines of five zang organs model as an example, to explain the process of constructing the five viscera system based on metaphor, and briefly introduces the social system system for the Siwon construction of the viscera system; the fourth section elaborates the significance of viscera of conceptual metaphor. The third chapter is to hide elephant research of cognitive model of conceptual metaphor construction, is divided into five sections, the first section elaborates the scientific theory building relationships with cognitive model; second, section three or four explains, yin and Yang, the five formed four model and schema, and three cognitive models in the viscera of conceptual metaphor role in the construction of. The fourth chapter is based on conceptual metaphor "-dirty" theory, is divided into two sections, the first section discusses "four" in the construction of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine in the role of; second section discusses "four" is based on a cognitive model of construction experience, to "spring" as an example depicts the "liver-dirty" conceptual metaphor construction process, and discusses the interpretation of conceptual metaphor of traditional Chinese medicine. The fifth chapter is the similarity of the viscera of conceptual metaphor based on construction examples, a total of four sections, the first section is "liver" conceptual metaphor study, second Jiewei bile viscera of conceptual metaphor, third viscera "real full study of Tibetan" theory, the fourth section is reducing rhetoric psychological logic "based on A B" format to hide elephant conceptual metaphor analysis. The sixth chapter discusses present situation of TCM theoretical research from the perspective of cognitive metaphor.