Image Schema And The Perspective Analysis Of Tang Poetry Discourse

Previous scholars and researchers usually studied ancient Chinese poems from the perspectives of literature, especially rhetoric and images. And few of them analyzed ancient poetry from the cognitive perspectives. Up to now we can hardly find cases studies about cognitive analysis toward ancient Chinese poetry. This dissertation attempts to comprehend and appreciate the Tang poetry discourse from cognitive linguistics theories, namely image schema based on 212 pieces of case studies selected from Three Hundred Poems in the Tang Dynasty. Image schema focuses on the rich images in people's mind while thinking, which, to some extent, is accordance to the rich images in ancient Chinese poetry. However, image schema doesn't mean the concrete images, but an embodied structure that associates abstract relation and concrete images. By applying the new achievements of cognitive image schema, the author tries to explore the blending and integration of images in Tang poetry from different perspectives. The underlying purpose is to test the feasibility and applicability of image schema theory in classical Chinese poetry analysis and appreciation.