Cognitive Metaphor Of Tujia Folk Songs

As a cognitive theory of metaphor is the use of the things that the other areas of the field to understand a thing, another area often called the source domain of things, something called a field goal field. Generally source domain tend to be more specific, the target domain are more abstract. Western Hunan Tujia folk songs use a lot of specific things in the image domain as the source, through images, astronomical phenomena, earth, people like the other, illustrates the feelings, thinking things such as abstract target domain. The Tujia folk metaphor not only in the ordinary way, but there's one thing more specific metaphor and relationship between two things, especially animals, clutch and everything is metaphor. The Tujia folk metaphor addition to the ordinary source→similarity→target metaphor, source→target metaphor and similarity metaphor of structural features and localized, directional, context-dependent of semantic rules, also has a unique source→target→similarity metaphor, target→imilarity→source metaphor, target→source metaphor, target→source→similarity metaphor and the metaphor of target and similarity to appear synchronously of the structural characteristics and the same target with a variety of semantic rules. Meanwhile, Tujia folk metaphors unique characteristics from multiple angles to show the function of things, many things from the sum of similarity functions and match from multiple sources to create the domain function of three types of metaphor metaphors function. Tujia folk songs with a more specific reason why the metaphor of a metaphor structure, expression pattern and the semantics of the metaphor of three special features, because the geographical Tujia secluded mountain environment and the food, clothing, "Weeping marry ", fishing and hunting, religion, production and other cultural practices. Tujia Folk Songs of the metaphor, metaphor theory can further enrich the subject matter, to expand scope of the study of metaphor, metaphor to demonstrate ubiquitous cognitive activity in all aspects of human life to add a support in promoting the development of metaphor theory has some significance. To study the Tujia folk from the perspective of metaphor, can also further explore the Tujia culture, and provide a new direction of the study of Tujia folk songs.