英语谚语中的常用比喻探究  

On Commonly-used Figures of Speech in English Proverbs

作　　者：么孝颖[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海电力学院外国语学院,上海200090

出　　处：《上海电力学院学报》2014年第S2期123-126,共4页Journal of Shanghai University of Electric Power

摘　　要：英语谚语是英语语言和文化中历史悠久、运用广泛、使用频率高、凝练劳动人民经验和智慧的通俗简练、生动活泼的韵语或短句。比喻是人类共有的思维模式,其在英语谚语中的大量运用使得英语生动形象、幽默风趣、观点鲜明、迷人难忘。英语谚语中常见的比喻包括明喻、隐喻、转喻和提喻等。明喻和隐喻是建立从喻体到本体相似性投射的过程,转喻是寻找能够替代本体的关联性事物的过程,提喻是寻找能够代替本体的整体或者部分的过程。English proverbs have a very long history in the English language and culture.They are very popular and concise crambo and phrases reflecting the working people 's experiences and wisdom.They are also of wide application and high frequency of use.Figures of speech are shared by all mankind,whose wide use in the English proverbs make their view points strikingly sharp and their expressions vivid,humorously interesting,charming and unforgettable.The commonly used figures of speech in English proverbs include simile,metaphor,metonymy and synecdoche.Simile and metaphor are to establish projections from Target domain to Source domain based on similarity while metonymy is to replace Source domain by something relevant and synecdoche is to replace Source domain by its upper category or subordinate concept.

关 键 词：英语谚语 明喻 隐喻 转喻 提喻 

分 类 号：H313[语言文字—英语]