A Metaphor Construction Study Of Chinese Idioms About Human Organs

"Far takes various things, nearly takes the various bodies", in the exploration of humanity to own and the world , throughout firmly is retaining primitive connection of the person and the world . As one kind of experience and emotion way, on the similarfoundation with person and natural, it annotates understanding of humanity to own and periphery world. The people always use their own body to understand the objective things ,so "the mountain" has "the waist", "the head" and "the foot"; The people also use own body to understand the abstract, strange, the complex concept, brothers family member and soon sisters may be called "the hand and foot", the central status thing may be called "the heart". The human body metaphor way in the person unconsciously formed, just when people understanding the cognition world .Chinese human body metaphoris extremely developed, mainly includes the human body words and expressions the metaphor and expands to the proverb category metaphor, namely the object of this article studies human body organ class proverb metaphor. The human body organ class proverb is the special community in the human body metaphor , it is always neglected in the human body metaphor research and is an important foundation in proverb . Compared with general words and expressions ,it is more complex in the external form and the intrinsic mechanism. So the human body organ class proverb metaphor constructs inevitably and under the usual significance human body metaphor constructs has smart differences, it is worthing squiring into.In the first part of the article ,introduction, Chinese idioms about human organs category has been clear about first time, including the proverb, the slang, the famous phrase and the catch word with the human body spot or the organ. Follows closely is introducing cognition mechanism - Lai in the second part which its cultural significance constructs to test concept metaphor theory. Through intruduction,we know the metaphor of the human body organ class proverb , is a expansion of the metaphor concept"the world is the person" in the proverb category . The human body organ class proverb followed and has developed this concept, through the similar establishment of the human body movement behavior characteristic or the relation with the abstract , affair ,emotion thought, intelligence performance and so on , constructed the cultural significance, formed the dynamic human body metaphor system. There are kinds of expressesions of human body class proverb metaphor expresses , but mantic structure type actually only has one kind, namely "analogy significance style" metaphor. The semantic structure type is unitary, certainly did not mean its metaphor constructs the process to have the unitarily.Third part of this article analyzed the specifically process of constructing Chinese idioms about human organs metaphor significance. In detail inspected metaphor significance the realization process the proverb of two kinds of proverbs: interior human body words and expressions not having the modifier and having the modifier . Obtained the following two conclusions: majority of the proverb not having the modifier is dynamic, the significance constructing mainly depended on the representationcharacteristic of body language movement or the relational characteristic realization; the proverb having modifier , the modifier in the process which the metaphor significance constructs, also has played the vital role, the entire proverb significance constructs divides two step completes, first the modifier and the human body words and expressions semantics fusion forms the new words and expressions, again and other ingredient affect together, complete the overall significance constructing. To the proverb which has modifier , we mainly inspected the color word, the number-classifier phrase, the locative, the person substantive the function which construct to the entire idioms significance. And then discussed the influence factor of the linguistic environment with constructing metaphor of the idioms about human organs.The fourth part mainly inspected the characteristic of the process in which the human idioms about human organs metaphor constructing. It mainly included three aspects: object choice, language style and culture . Three kinds of characteristics all more or less nationality thought the huge propelling force which constructed regarding the idioms about human organs metaphor.This article adopts a way by outside but in, from the language to the intrinsic mechanism tries hard to makes quite complete omni-directional analysis with metaphor constructing to the idioms about human organs.