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Allegorical Sayings From The Perspective Of Research On Metaphor

Posted on:2011-06-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305489616Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Allegorical Sayings as a kind of linguistic phenomena is loved by the people, is one of the more unique Chinese phenomenon, in the form, which is similar to Mimian, the answer of two parts, and with the metaphor in nature; in the content, It is by the majority of working people in the long run production, summed up the process of life, condensed the wisdom of the Chinese people, including a thought-provoking national character. With a strong ideological content of the spoken language with a strong feature of the convention after the widely circulated in the use of time played a witty sense of humor and vivid image of the language effect. In this paper, results of previous studies to try to semantics from a cognitive point of view of twisters exploration. U.S. cognitive linguists Lakoff & Johnson in "Metaphors We Live By" (1980) for the first time discussed the philosophical basis of cognitive linguistics. Its philosophical foundation is built on the basis of empirical reality. Allegorical Sayings from the content point of view is also the crystallization of experience, so an increase from the metaphorical point of view to study the feasibility of the twisters. This perspective of metaphor theory to start trying various angles from a metaphorical analysis of the twisters. Metaphor and twisters separately from the relationship between metaphor theory embodied in the twisters, the source domain of culture and nature of the Speech twisters twisters Metaphor and Metaphor phenomena and pragmatic values, and many issues to explore twisters. And finally borrowed Fauconnier (1997) proposed the "conceptual integration theory", from the dynamic point of view to explore the complex cognitive processes underlying twisters, twisters help us understand the metaphor of construction method. According to power analysis, using four psychological space, Images of the concept of deconstruction in the context of the meaning of twisters build process.
Keywords/Search Tags:Allegorical Sayings, Metaphor, the source domain, culture, voice metaphor, pragmatics, conceptual integration theory
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