《紅樓夢》中的感官隱喻研究及翻譯.pdf

1、廣西師范大學(xué)碩士學(xué)位論文《紅樓夢》中的感官隱喻研究及翻譯姓名：王丹申請學(xué)位級別：碩士專業(yè)：英語語言文學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師：黃世香20080401vThe Study and Translation of Sensory Metaphors in Hong Lou Meng Postgraduate: Wang Dan Grade:2005 Field of Study: English Language & Liter

2、ature Supervisor: Associate Professor Huang Shixiang Orientation: Translation Studies & Practice Abstract in English Recently, cognitive linguistics at home and abroad has developed so rapidly that it has begun t

3、o gain a dominant position in linguistics theory. Cognitive linguistics is an approach to language that is based on our experience of the world. It mainly tries to explore how human beings perceive and conceptualize the

4、world and focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing, and conveying information. Now, metaphor has played an important role in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics. It is Lakoff and Johnson wit

5、h their influential Conceptual Metaphor Theory that reinforces the trend of cognitive study on metaphor. According to this theory, the essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of a

6、nother. Our ordinary conceptual system by means of which we live, think and act is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. According to Lakoff and Johnson, metaphor is viewed as a mapping across conceptual domains - the so

7、urce domain and the target domain. The term mapping refers to the directional interaction between the two domains. Based on the theory of conceptual metaphor, this thesis has made an initial attempt to discover the meta

8、phorical mapping features in sensory domain in Chinese language, looking on Hong Lou Meng as source material, and attempts to make a comparison on sensory metaphors in English and Chinese. Our findings show that in senso

9、ry metaphors similarities and differences exist while the cognition of basic experience of the five senses is mostly universal. Correspondence between Chinese and English metaphorical expression can be best confirmed in

10、the sense of sight and the sense of hearing. Meanwhile, differences appear as well. Comparing to the sense of sight and sense of hearing, other three senses (sense of smell, sense of taste, and sense of touch) are not as

11、 close to the mind. The research also finds from the cognitive perspective that in spite of some features peculiar to Chinese, most of the synesthetic transferences coincide with each other. The disagreement as reflected

12、 in the three senses: sense of smell(香 and 臭), sense of taste(苦、酸 and 醋), and sense of touch(寒) is influenced by Chinese culture and specific thinking mode. Although not all the differences can be fully accounted for, th