从概念整合角度看中英文经济类新闻标题中的隐喻

发布时间：2018-07-20 21:27

【摘要】：从古至今,隐喻作为一种普遍存在的语言现象,历来受到中外学者的关注。随着全球化进程的进一步深化和各国经济的迅猛发展,中外各类经济语篇中大量存在并且不断更新的隐喻,引起了语言学家甚至经济学家的关注。传统的修辞学角度对隐喻的分析往往只关注隐喻的表层问题,如语义和语法,未能深入到隐喻的工作机制和意义的构建过程。而当代学者从认知角度对隐喻现象的研究才能真正揭示其工作机制和意义构建过程。因此,本文以福柯尼耶(Fauconnier)的概念整合理论为理论框架,对中英文经济类语篇中的隐喻进行研究。概念整合理论是以心理空间为基础发展而来。福柯尼耶提出概念整合的标准形式包括四个心理空间：两个输入空间,一个类属空间和一个整合空间。两个输入空间之间通过跨空间映射建立起部分结构配对。类属空间通过部分投射接收两个输入空间之间共享且更为抽象的部分结构配对。输入空间的部分结构也被投射到整合空间,整合空间通过组合、完善和精致对接收的部分投射和输入的背景信息进行加工,从而产生了新创结构。新创结构是生成性的,是隐喻意义构建的潜在机制。本文的语料取自2011年5月至8月的主流经济类刊物《华尔街日报》(英文版)、《金融时报》(英文版)和《21世纪经济报道》(中文版)中的部分新闻标题。研究方法主要是采用定性研究,通过数据分类和具体案例分析来对中英文经济类语篇中隐喻现象的工作机制和意义建构过程进行分析。通过对“经济是战争”、“经济是人”和“经济是娱乐”这三个高频隐喻类别的案例分析可以发现,概念整合理论能更为清晰地表现出隐喻认知的过程,揭示隐喻作为人们认知经济现象的一种重要手段的事实。隐喻不仅使艰深晦涩的经济用语变得生动易懂,更能反映出特定的社会意识和倾向。因此,对于隐喻的认知研究可以提高隐喻意识,培养隐喻思维,指导经济类语篇的写作和理解。
[Abstract]:From ancient to present, metaphor, as a universal linguistic phenomenon, has always been concerned by Chinese and foreign scholars. With the further deepening of the globalization process and the rapid development of the economies of various countries, there are a large number of metaphors in various economic discourses at home and abroad, which have attracted the attention of linguists and even economists. The traditional rhetorical analysis of metaphor is often focused on the surface aspects of metaphor, such as semantics and grammar, and fails to penetrate into the working mechanism of metaphor and the process of meaning construction. However, contemporary scholars can reveal the mechanism of metaphor and the process of meaning construction from the perspective of cognition. Therefore, this thesis takes Fauconnier's conceptual integration theory as the theoretical framework to study metaphors in Chinese and English economic discourses. The theory of conceptual integration is developed on the basis of psychological space. Fokonier proposed that the standard form of conceptual integration includes four mental spaces: two input spaces, one generic space and one integration space. A partial structural pairing is established between two input spaces by cross-space mapping. Generic spaces receive partial structural pairings that are shared and more abstract between two input spaces through partial projection. Part of the structure of the input space is also projected to the integration space, and the integration space processes the received part of the projection and the input background information through combination, perfection and refinement, resulting in a new and innovative structure. The new structure is generative and a potential mechanism for metaphorical meaning construction. The corpus of this paper is taken from some of the headlines in the mainstream economic journals, the Wall Street Journal (English edition), the Financial Times (English edition) and the 21st Century Economic report (Chinese edition) from May to August 2011. The main research methods are qualitative research, data classification and case study to analyze the working mechanism and meaning construction process of metaphorical phenomena in Chinese and English economic discourse. Through the case study of the three high-frequency metaphorical categories of "economy is war", "economy is human" and "economy is entertainment", it can be found that the theory of conceptual integration can more clearly show the process of metaphorical cognition. It reveals the fact that metaphor is an important means for people to recognize economic phenomena. Metaphor not only makes difficult and obscure economic terms vivid and easy to understand, but also reflects specific social consciousness and tendency. Therefore, the cognitive study of metaphor can enhance metaphorical consciousness, cultivate metaphorical thinking and guide the writing and understanding of economic discourse.
【学位授予单位】：西南财经大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2012
【分类号】：H315;H15

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