“酸”和“sour”的认知语义对比分析-语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

i i Acknowledgments I would like to express my sincere gratitude to a great many people. Without their help and support, this thesis could not be finished. My sincere gratitude first goes to my supervisor, Professor Xu Lijie for her patient help and encouragement as well as her invaluable criticism and enlightening suggestions, without which my thesis would not have taken the present form. During the three years of study under her guidance, I have been benefited a lot from her erudition. Special thanks would also go to Professor Liang Xiaobo and Professor Zhou Qiqiang . In the process of this thesis?s writing, they have given me a lot of insightful suggestions and help. I also would like to express my appreciation to all the teachers in School of Foreign Studies of Hunan University of Science and Technology, who have imparted to me knowledge of English language and opened up my eyes to the wonders of language and linguistics. Special thanks should go to my dear friends, classmates and roommates, for their understanding, support and encouragement, with whom I have spent much happy time during the three years. In the end, my thanks would go to my beloved parents, for their unconditional support, loving considerations and encouragement through these years, especially in the process of writing the thesis. ii ii Abstract Taste is one of the most basic and important senses of human beings in perceiving the world, the researches on which are the part of research of cognitive abilities of human beings. The literature review shows that western scholars mainly study the mapping of taste words from the perspective of metaphor while Chinese scholars mainly study from the perspectives of grammar, metaphor and cognition, semantic and culture. However, so far, the studies exclusively related to suan and sour are scarce. The present study collects data of suan and sour from various sources, and within the theoretical framework of metaphor and metonymy theories of Cognitive Linguist