网络女性指称语中隐喻的产生及变化:凸显、重新凸显

Creation and Change in Internet Women-Referring Metaphors: Profiling and Reprofiling

  • 摘要: 本文采用Langacker认知语法凸显理论来解释网络女性指称语隐喻的产生及其语义变化。研究发现,隐喻的产生是对其源域特征的选择,是一个凸显的过程。换言之,施喻者在源域众多的特征中选择一个或少数几个特征,将其投射到目标域中,实际上是对所选特征的凸显。再者,语料显示,网络女性指称语大多经历了从褒到贬的语义变化。这些变化导致源域特征的重新凸显。本文将认知语法和隐喻理论相结合,挖掘网络女性指称语语义的变化轨迹,对其隐喻的形成过程做出更加有说服力的阐释,从而对隐喻语义变化做出具有连贯性的统一诠释,为认知语言学及社会语言学研究提供有益的补充和借鉴。

     

    Abstract: According to conceptual metaphor theory, a metaphor results from the mapping of a source domain to a target domain. This mapping is partial: it maps only a feature or a set of small number of features of the source domain to the target domain. In this paper, we first propose that the selection of source domain feature(s) to be mapped is a process of profiling, per Langacker (1987). Second, we document the change of semantic degradation of women-referring expressions and argue that this change can also be captured via profiling, which we call re-profiling. Our paper thus contributes to both cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics.

     

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