从概念隐喻理论出发研究马太福音中的隐喻Word文档下载推荐.docx

1、This thesis applies the conceptual metaphor theory to analyze the metaphors in the MATTHEW, unveiling the metaphorical thinking of cognitive metaphors of religion. Besides, it makes a comparison about the metaphorical thinking of the same source domain between Bible and the traditional Chinese cultu

2、re, and finds that different metaphorical thinking reflects different culture background. Three main findings is presented in the the thesis: first, the parables in MATTHEW all contain the natural or common objects in their source domain for people to understand obscure and abstract biblical concept

3、s easily; second, both CMT and CBT are productive methods to illustrate metaphors but the later one can be more explanatory in understanding extended metaphors; third, experience, cognition and culture are in close triangular relations. All in all ,through the analysis of metaphors in MATTHEW, we ha

4、ve a better understanding of the generation and explanation of biblical metaphors as well as the close relations among experience, cognition and Hebrew culture.Key words: Cognitive metaphor; conceptual metaphor theory; the MATTHEW; culture摘要：隐喻是一种普遍现象，渗透于人类语言方方面面。传统视角下的隐喻被限定为一种修饰性语言。现代西方对隐喻的研究突破了此局限

5、，更多侧重于对隐喻现象产生的解释，并在对各领域各学科的研究基础上产生认知隐喻学。圣经不仅是基督教的经典，更是西方文化的源泉。国内外学者对圣经的研究，多集中于其所蕴藏的文学价值，少数对圣经隐喻的分析，也集中于旧约牧羊人的隐喻。本文采用认知隐喻学理论中的概念隐喻理论，对圣经新约中首卷马太福音中的相关隐喻作分析，揭示人们对宗教隐喻的认知性思维方式，并对比分析圣经中源域涉及物事与对应中国传统文化下相同物事所隐射的目标域差异，发现文化对隐喻认知产生重大影响，隐喻思维差异折射文化差异。通过分析，本文主要有三个发现：一、 马太福音中隐喻都将听教者身边自然物或者常见物作为源域以便更好阐释复杂抽象的圣经概念；二

6、、概念隐喻理论与概念混合理论对阐释马太福音中的隐喻十分有效，但后者在对于博喻的阐释中更具说服力；三、切身体验与认知和文化形成一种三角关系，三者间相互影响，对隐喻的形成起重大作用。 通过对马太福音的分析，我们对整个圣经隐喻的产生和阐释以及体验、认知与文化三者间的联系有了更好的理解。关键词：认知隐喻；概念隐喻理论；马太福音；文化差异1. IntroductionThe first part of the thesis is the introduction which contains the background, methods and the frame work of the study.

7、 The reasons that the paper chooses Bible and metaphor as study objects are mainly elaborated in this part, which paves the way for the development of the study.1.1 Background of the StudyMetaphor is universal as it permeates almost every aspect of humans lives. And the metaphorical feature reflects

8、 the humanistic property of the language. In western culture, the systematic study of metaphor can be traced back to Aristotle, who treated metaphor as a rhetoric method to modify lexicon in his work The Poetics. Traditional perspective confined metaphor to a figurative language while contemporary r

9、esearches surmount the hedge and place the metaphor in the cognitive sphere which concentrates on the interpretation of the working mechanism of metaphor. Cognitive linguistics asserts that metaphor is more of a tool for human to perceive into the world than of a method to decorate the text, which h

10、as an indispensable influence on the humans thought being and behavior being. The main views of the cognitive linguistics can be listed as follows:1） Metaphor is ubiquitous.2） Metaphor is more of a cognitive method than of an ornament3） Metaphor is systematic4） Metaphor is the mapping relation betwe

11、en two domains: source domain and target domain5） Metaphorical mapping has selectivity and is based on humans experienceThe generation and development of the cognitive linguistics triggered the hot trend to restudy the metaphor both at home and aboard. And the modern study of metaphor is prone to pu

12、t the cognitive research into a vaster cultural background.By contrast, the study of cognitive linguistics has a late beginning in our country with its propagation starting in the end of 1980s. Although the leading authority as Shu Dingfang and Hu Zhuanglin at home did reap huge fruits and fertile t

13、he soil of cognitive metaphors, theres still undeniable and unelectable gap between the internal study and external which is caused by the overdue repetition at a low level accompanying by the ignorance of the specific linguistic phenomenon. Therefore the further effort should be devoted to both theoretical and experimental work.Since the application of metaphor is closely related to cultural and religious factors, the study of metaphor should be carried out in a specific cultural context. And the Bible is surely of great significance for linguistic research. For one thing, Bible is n