On the aesthetic mechanism and cognitive explanation of synaesthesia between Chinese and English  

汉英通感隐喻的美学基础与认知阐释

作　　者：许峰[1] 董元兴[2] 

机构地区：[1]中国地质大学外语学院,湖北武汉430074 [2]中国地质大学教育学院,湖北武汉430074

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2008年第7期32-36,共5页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：Synaesthesia, based on the common human physiological mechanism, is a linguistic and psychological phenomenon. From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is viewed as a kind of metaphor, for both domains （the source domain and the target domain） of the metaphor are human sensations. The paper explores the aesthetic mechanisms of synaesthesia, applies the conceptual metaphor theory to analyze Chinese and English synaesthetic phenomena so as to reveal the rules of cross-domain mapping.通感基于人类共同生理机制，是一种普遍的心理和语言现象。从认知角度看，通感是一种隐喻，其源域和目的域都是人类所体验的感觉。本文探讨了通感隐喻形成的美学基础，通过运用概念隐喻理论阐释漠英通感隐喻现象，揭示通感隐喻跨感官映射规律的共性，追一步深化对通感隐喻的认识与理解。

关 键 词：SYNAESTHESIA conceptual metaphor MAPPING 

分 类 号：H05[语言文字—语言学] G12[文化科学]