“下”型方位词在科技英语中的图式映射新探  

A New Probe into Schema Mappings of "DOWN/BENEATH/BELOW/UNDER" in EST

作　　者：张聪义[1] 

机构地区：[1]厦门理工学院外语系,福建厦门361024

出　　处：《北京第二外国语学院学报》2011年第10期20-27,共8页Journal of Beijing International Studies University

基　　金：2009~2010年福建省教育厅社会科学研究项目(课题编号:JBS09166)

摘　　要：隐喻不仅是一种语言现象,与人类语言的发展规律息息相关,而且也是一种认知现象,与人的思维方式和思维发展紧密相连。根据莱考夫和约翰逊的概念隐喻和意象图式理论,针对科技英语中作为意象图式概念的"下"形状方位词即"DOWN/BENEATH/BELOW/UNDER"型前置词进行其图式映射分析,结果发现它们能够分别将空间域的意象图式结构从始源域映射到非空间抽象目标域之上,再次佐证了"许多抽象概念结构部分源起于意象图式结构,抽象思维在一定程度上是隐喻思维"的认知观。Metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon closely related to the law of the development of human languages,but a cognitive phenomenon tightly linked up with the mode development of human thinking as well.Based on the theory of conceptual metaphor and image schema theory by Lakoff Johnson,a new exploration of schema mappings for ＂DOWN/BENEATH/BELOW/UNDER＂ in English for Science and Technology（EST） regarded as the concept of image schema is made.The study shows that these words map image-schematic structures in space domains from source domains onto non-spatial abstract target domains respectively.The research findings once again provide us with evidence in support of the following cognitive theory： lots of abstract conceptual structures partially derive themselves from image-schematic structures,and abstract thought is to some extent metaphorical thought.

关 键 词：“下”形状方位词 科技英语 意象图式 图式映射 概念隐喻 

分 类 号：H0-06[语言文字—语言学]