英语动物谚语的隐喻研究.pdf

万方数据 A Metaphorical Study of Animal Proverbs in English Author:He Ting Supervisor:Cai Longquan A Thesis Submitted to Foreign Languages College Shanghai Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Master of Arts in Foreign Linguistics & Applied Linguistics May 2015 万方数据万方数据 Shanghai Normal University Master of Arts Abstract i Abstract Metaphor in human life is very important, it can be said that metaphor exists everywhere in life, on the one hand, it reflects the world people who are ready to know. On the other hand, it plays an important role as a language form, which influences people’s thinking of real world. In this paper, the author studies the animal proverbs based on the theories of Conceptual Metaphor, especially the theory of “Human beings are animals”. From this perspective, to analyze how its appearances, behaviors, features and other aspects, which can be regarded as source domains, are mapped into parts of human beings with the metaphorical meanings in such kind of animal proverbs. This paper has five parts. Generally, the brief introduction about the objective, the referred methodology and the outline of the paper have been showed in chapter one; Chapter two shows the literature review at home and abroad, to be clearer, all the studies collected here have been divided into four types, that is cultural aspect, cognitive aspect, literary aspect and semantic aspect; Chapter three is the statement of theoretical background. It contains the historical development from classical metaphor to conceptual metaphor, especially the “Great Chain of Being” proposed by Lakoff and Turner. What’s more, the theory of “Human Beings Are Animals” and its mapping mechanism are