晋 中 学 院
本科毕业论文（设计）
题 目 英汉诗歌爱情隐喻 的对比浅析
院 系 外国语学院 专 业 英语 姓 名 张翌芳 学 号 1003111236 学习年限 2010年 9月至2014年6月 指导教师 姜丹丹 讲师 申请学位 文学学士学位
2014年 6月6 日
晋中学院本科生毕业论文（设计）
Acknowledgements
First of all, I owe my greatest thanks to my supervisor Jiang Dandan for her careful guidance and valuable advice during my writing of this thesis. Without her patient encouragement, it is impossible for me to finish my thesis.
Secondly, I want to express my thanks to all the teachers of the school of foreign languages, for their excellent lectures and sincere guidance in the past three years. The learning experience in the school of foreign languages is unforgettable for me.
Finally, my special thanks are given to my family and friends for their understanding, constant support and encouragement.
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晋中学院本科生毕业论文（设计）
Comparative Study of Love Metaphors in English and Chinese
Poems
Author’s Name: Zhang Yifang Tutor: Jiang Dandan
Abstract: Metaphor is traditionally treated as a figure of speech, which is in nature an
ornament of language at the linguistic level. Traditional studies on metaphor were mainly confined to literature and rhetoric. With the development of cognitive linguistics in 1980s, the significance of metaphor has been realized from a new perspective, which made metaphor a hot topic in various disciplines. In recent years, the focus of metaphor research has turned to emotion metaphor, and the study, employing daily utterances as corpus, mainly concerns with the emotions like happiness, angry, sadness and fear etc. But there is relatively less study on love metaphor in poems. Poetry is a special way to convey emotions, and there are plenty of rich metaphors in it. Therefore the study of poetic metaphor gradually becomes a new field for the linguists.
Different nations display different cultural experience as well as the same bodily experience, which determines that there may be similarities and differences of metaphors in different cultures. Therefore, this paper examines a large number of verses in English and Chinese poetry, and it found out love metaphors in English and Chinese poetry have great similarities and uniqueness. The conclusion is that it is the factors of bodily and life experience and cultural experience that led to similarities and dissimilarities in Chinese and English
Keywords: love metaphors; poems; comparative study
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晋中学院本科生毕业论文（设计）
英汉诗歌爱情隐喻的对比浅析
学生姓名：张翌芳 指导老师：姜丹丹
摘 要:传统的隐喻观认为隐喻是一种修辞方式，其在本质上只是一种装饰性的语言现
象，隐喻研究也只局限于文学和修辞方面。二十世纪八十年代，随着认知语言学的兴起，人们对隐喻的重要作用有了全新的认识，隐喻也成为众多学科关注的热门话题。 隐喻研究的焦点逐渐转向情感隐喻，多以日常话语为语料，对喜、怒、哀、恐等情感隐喻进行研究，但对诗歌中爱情隐喻的研究相对较少。而诗歌作为一种特殊的情感表达方式，其间蕴含了丰富的隐喻，诗歌隐喻逐渐成为隐喻研究的一个新领域。
由于不同民族既具有基本相同的身体经验，又具有不同的文化经验，这就决定了隐喻在不同的语言文化中既可能存在着一定的共性，同时又存在着不同的文化特征。沿着这些思路，本文选择与人类密切相关的 “爱情”这一概念，考察了大量英语和汉语诗歌的诗句,发现英语和汉语诗歌中的爱情概念隐喻有很大的相似性和独特性。最后得出由于个体生活经验不同和文化体验不同因素导致了这两种语言中隐喻的相似性和相异性。
关键词：爱情隐喻；英汉诗歌；对比研究
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Contents
Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................. i Abstract in English .................................................................................................................. ii Abstract in Chinese ................................................................................................................ iii
ⅠIntroduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 ⅡLiterature Review .............................................................................................................. 2 ⅢConceptual Metaphor in English and Chinese Poems ................................................... 3
3.1 The definition of conceptual metaphor ....................................................................... 4 3.2 The characteristics of conceptual metaphor ............................................................... 5 ⅣThe Analysis of English and Chinese Conceptual Metaphors of \Love\...................... 6
4.1 General conceptual metaphors of \.................................................................... 6
4.1.1 Love is a journey .............................................................................................. 6 4.1.2 Love is plant ..................................................................................................... 7 4.1.3 Love is illness ................................................................................................... 8 4.1.4 Love is a shining object .................................................................................... 8 4.2 Specific conceptual metaphors of \....................................... 9
4.2.1 Love is a valuable object .................................................................................. 9 4.2.2 Love is sport ................................................................................................... 10 4.3 Specific conceptual metaphors of \.................................... 10
4.3.1 Love is agricultural product ........................................................................... 10 4.3.2 Love is a predestined relationship .................................................................. 11 4.3.3 Love is music .................................................................................................. 12 4.4 Reasons of similarities and differences .................................................................... 12 ⅤConclusion ........................................................................................................................ 14 Bibliography ......................................................................................................................... 16