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隐喻是人类认知世界的重要手段,作为一种意象图式隐喻,空间隐喻是构建许多抽象概念的基础。本文的研究重点在Up和Down两个概念,旨在通过对真实语料的分析,以揭示英语中Up和Down两个词的原型义、拓展隐喻义、隐喻拓展方向及其认知基础。
Metaphor is an important means of human cognitive world. As an image schema metaphor, spatial metaphor is the basis of constructing many abstract concepts. This dissertation focuses on Up and Down concepts. The purpose of this dissertation is to reveal the original meaning of Up and Down words in English through the analysis of real corpus, expand the metaphorical meaning, the direction of metaphor expansion and its cognitive basis.