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The Metaphorical Metonymy Study Of Chinese Tea Names

Posted on:2020-07-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330575955534Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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China is the birthplace of tea and the main producing area of tea.The variety of tea is diverse.The naming of things is of great importance to Chinese people since ancient times,and it is well reflected in the naming of tea.For example,how to highlight the characteristics of various types of tea in the naming,and how to reflect the cultural implications of tea,these are all need to be considered when naming tea.In fact,many tea names involve metonymy or metaphor.In this paper,the main research objects are the names of six major tea groups and other non-six major tea systems involved in metaphor and metonymy,and they will be studied in detail.A total of 649 corpora were collected,including 70 metaphorical tea names,472 metaphorical tea names,and 107 concealed metaphorical tea names.First of all,this paper analyzes the phenomenon and characteristics of metaphor,metonymy,concealed metaphor and multi-solution in tea naming.We found that the metaphorical tea names mostly use the direct features of tea as the metaphorical target domain,but the difference is that the color that is also directly used as the direct feature of tea is mostly conceptually metaphorical;on the other hand,the name of the tea using metonymy can be divided into the name of tea with the name of the class,the name of tea without the name of the class,and the name of tea with the name of the solidified class.The metaphorical degree are enhanced and their semantic level gradually increase.However,among the concealed metaphor,the name of the tea that is not included in the class name“ metaphor + metaphor ” is the most.Secondly,combining the theory of concept integration with the theory of physical structure in generating lexicon theory,the tea naming can be divided into different structure types according to the main part of the tea name,,and the tea names of different structure types are analyzed in detail from the perspective of physical structure.We found that the single physical character in the tea name has the most prominent form role,while the multi-physical character highlights the double number of the form role and the constituent character.Finally,the paper analyzes the integration mechanism in tea names.It is found that the“N1N2 parallel metaphor”and“N1N2 overall metaphor”are located in the first and second places respectively in the metaphorical tea names,and in metaphorical tea names,“N1 metonymy”is the most,followed by“N1N2parallel metaphor ”;in the combination of implicit metaphor,“ N1 metaphor N2 metaphor ” is the most.From the perspective of metaphor or metonymy of each cognitive type,the juxtaposition cognitive structure is the most.And the "right center side by side" takes an advantage.
Keywords/Search Tags:tea name, physical structure, conceptual blending, semantic integration mechanism
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