英语诗歌语篇的隐喻性

论文摘要

隐喻研究已有两千多年的历史,但是一直囿于修辞领域。传统上隐喻仅仅被看作是语言的装饰,文学作品的修辞手法之一。20世纪80年代,莱考夫提出的概念隐喻理论突破了隐喻研究的范畴,提出隐喻不仅仅是一种语言现象,更是人类普遍的一种思维方式和认知手段。隐喻的实质是通过另一个事物来说明或理解某一个事物。随着研究的深入,有不少学者从语篇层面入手研究概念隐喻,发现概念隐喻具有语篇连贯的功能。但是,其中大多数研究仅限于宏观意义上的语篇,而对具体的语篇,如与隐喻语言有着密切关系的英语诗歌语篇则鲜有涉及。因此,本文借助语篇分析的一些理论,特别是语篇认知连贯理论,在概念隐喻理论的框架下,对概念隐喻在英诗中的语篇功能,即概念隐喻在构建英诗语篇中起什么作用,怎样起作用的问题,做一个探讨性的研究。本文通过对五个英语诗歌语篇进行定性的分析得出结论:概念隐喻可以帮助实现英语诗歌语篇连贯。其连贯机制有:通过激活的隐喻蕴涵集实现连贯;通过一个隐喻、两个隐喻或者多个隐喻实现连贯;通过多种隐喻的组合构建语篇连贯。研究还表明,如果英语诗歌语篇表达的意义与框架、意象图式和脚本等认知模式相一致,则语篇是连贯的。

论文目录

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• 摘要
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Poetic metaphor: from rhetorical tradition to cognitive perspective
• 1.2 Rationale of this research
• 1.3 Purposes of this research
• 1.4 Methodology for this research
• 1.5 Framework of the thesis
• Chapter 2 A Brief Account of Metaphor Study
• 2.1 Study abroad
• 2.1.1 Substitution theory
• 2.1.2 Comparison theory
• 2.1.3 Interaction theory
• 2.2 Study in China
• Chapter 3 Theoretical Analyses of Conceptual Metaphor and Discourse Coherence
• 3.1 Conceptual metaphor
• 3.1.1 The basis of conceptual metaphor
• 3.1.1.1 The experience gestalt
• 3.1.1.2 The image schemas
• 3.1.1.3 Categorization
• 3.1.2 Metaphorical entailments
• 3.1.3 Highlighting and hiding
• 3.2 Discourse coherence
• 3.2.1 Text and discourse
• 3.2.2 Text and context
• 3.2.3 Cohesion
• 3.2.4 Coherence
• 3.2.4.1 Semantic coherence
• 3.2.4.2 Cognitive coherence
• 3.2.5 Cognitive models realizing discourse coherence
• 3.2.5.1 Frame
• 3.2.5.2 Script
• 3.3 Metaphorical coherence
• 3.3.1 Coherence within a single metaphor
• 3.3.2 Coherence between two aspects of a single concept
• Chapter 4 Coherence of Conceptual Metaphor in English Poetic Discourse
• 4.1 Metaphor and poetry
• 4.1.1 Cognitive function of poetic metaphor
• 4.1.2 Constructive function of poetic metaphor
• 4.2 Coherent mechanisms of conceptual metaphor in English poetic discourse
• 4.2.1 Coherence through the activated entailment set of conceptual metaphors
• 4.2.1.1 The activated entailment set
• 4.2.1.2 The activated entailment set of conceptual metaphor in English poetic discourse
• 4.2.2 Coherence within a single conceptual metaphor
• 4.2.3 Coherence through two conceptual metaphors
• 4.2.4 Coherence through multiple conceptual metaphors
• 4.2.5 Coherence established by combination of multiple types of conceptual metaphors
• 4.2.5.1 Orientational metaphors, ontological metaphors and structural metaphors
• 4.2.5.2 A poem realized by combination of three types of metaphors
• Chapter 5 Conclusions
• 5.1 Conclusion of the study
• 5.2 Suggestions for future study
• References