The Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Application of Barcelona Sanchez’s Typical Model of Romantic Love to Dream in Peony Pavilion 英语专业毕业论文.doc

The Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Application of Barcelona Sanchez’s Typical Model of Romantic Love to Dream in Peony Pavilion Abstract This thesis is a report on the application of Barcelona Sanchez’s typical model of romantic love to the Chinese literary work Dream in Peony Pavilion. In this play, the main theme is about love between two young people who are not supposed to have love desire freely. Language of emotion has been widely believed to be conceptualized metaphorically and metonymically. Barcelona Sanchez has identified some love metaphors and metonymies in Romeo and Juliet and how they apply to the typical model of romantic love. The similar attempt will be done in Dream in Peony Pavilion to find out whether this model can be applied to a Chinese text. A conclusion gradually emerges from this discussion is that this model can be partly applicable to Dream in Peony Pavilion. Introduction Love is an important theme in many famous plays in the world. Romeo and Juliet is considered as one of most powerful literary works regarding romantic love in western cultures (Mahood: 1957). In the Shakespearean period, there was another famous writer in eastern culture. The author- Tang Xianzu, has been called the Eastern Shakespeare for centuries. One of his representative works is Dream in Peony Pavilion. The depiction of romantic love in it is also striking (Xu Yuanchong: 2009). Shakespeare’s portrayal of romantic love has been analyzed by researchers interested in cognitive stylistics. Barcelona Sanchez synthesized his model with that of K?vecses’s Typical Model of Romantic Love (K?vecses: 1986: 97-106, 1988: 60-71). He used it as an approach to investigate the love concepts in Romeo and Juliet. Metaphors and metonymy have been applied as the fundamental conceptual framework in this model (Barcelona Sanchez: 2003). Based on the Typical Model of Romantic Love established by Barcelona Sanchez, the aim of my paper is to test whether it is applicable to the Chinese