【作者】 蒋红艳；

【导师】 周启强；

【作者基本信息】 湖南科技大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2008， 硕士

【摘要】 通感是一种常见的修辞手法。它是指用一种感官印象的词语去描述其他感官印象,以达到独特的审美效果。自从Lakoff和Johnson的《我们赖以生存的隐喻》(1980)问世以来,不少学者和语言学家开始对传统的修辞理论进行批评和反思,对于通感隐喻的认知研究也有了一定的发展。但国外语言学家对通感现象的认知研究主要使用英文语料;而国内语言学家的研究主要集中于揭示通感隐喻的认知规律。他们的研究成果在不同的语言文化中是否具有普遍性需要具体的跨语言、跨文化的研究去验证。基于这样一种背景,在前人研究成果的基础上,本论文旨在以认知语言学为框架,借助Lakoff和Johnson的概念隐喻理论,从认知的角度对通感进行研究。更重要的是,本文运用从文学作品、词典及日常语言中收集到的大量语料对英汉通感现象进行了系统的比较研究,并探讨了通感在广告、教学和翻译等领域中的应用。通感是人类的一种认知现象。通感隐喻在本质上是五种感觉(听觉、视觉、嗅觉、味觉和触觉)之间的映射。这种映射是单向性的,因为感官中的特征通常从低级感官形式映射到高级感官形式;并且这种映射不是随意的,而是根植于我们的身体特征、日常生活经验和语言知识。本文还通过研究大量通感隐喻实例,发现英汉语通感的共同性远远大于它们的差异性,这主要是人类认知的普遍性的结果。另外,通过从认知角度介绍和分析通感在广告、教学和翻译中的应用,我们发现通感现象广泛存在于社会生活中,我们总是在自觉或不自觉地应用着通感。因此,从认知角度深入研究通感隐喻不仅具有理论价值,还具有重要的现实意义。更多还原

【Abstract】 Synaesthesia is generally regarded as a kind of rhetorical device. It means the use of metaphor in which terms relating to one kind of sense-impression are used to describe sense-impressions of other kinds. Since the publication of Lakoff & Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By (1980), many scholars have retrospected and criticized the traditional theory of rhetoric, and the cognitive approaches have been introduced into the study of synaesthetic metaphors. However, western scholars focus on the English language, namely that their data are drawn from a single language on most occasions, while Chinese scholars mainly probe into the cognitive rules of synaesthetic metaphors. It is still unknown whether their research results are universally significant in different languages and cultures. Therefore, the cognitive approach to synaesthetic metaphor has reached a point where it has to be supported by sound evidence provided by cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research. Based on the previous researches, this thesis attempts to analyze synaesthesia in light of Lakoff & Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and regards it as a cognitive phenomenon by nature. Moreover, on the basis of linguistic data collected from literary works, dictionaries and everyday language, this thesis shows a comparative study between English and Chinese Synaesthesia. Finally, the author analyzes the applications of synaesthesia in the fields of advertisements, teaching and translation.Synaesthesia is a cognitive phenomenon of human beings. In essence, syaesthetic metaphor is the mapping between or among the five senses (hearing, vision, smell, taste and touch). This kind of mapping is basically unidirectional in that it is likely to involve projection from low-grade sense organs to more advanced sense organs. Besides, such mappings are not arbitrary, but are grounded in the body and in our everyday experiences and language. Abundant examples are provided showing that there are far more similarities between English and Chinese synaesthetic metaphors than there are differences, which mainly result from cognitive universality of human beings. What’s more, our research finds that synaesthesia is pervasive in our social life and we are often adopting it, consciously or unconsciously. Therefore, an in-depth study of synaesthesia from a cognitive perspective is not only theoretically significant, but also valuable in practice.更多还原