汉语左右方位的认知研究-语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

湘 潭 大 学 学位论文原创性声明 本人郑重声明：所呈交的论文是本人在导师的指导下独立进行研究所取得的 研究成果。除了文中特别加以标注引用的内容外，本论文不包含任何其它个人或 集体已经发表或撰写的成果作品。对本文的研究做出重要贡献的个人和集体，均 已在文中以明确方式标明。本人完全意识到本声明的法律后果由本人承担。 作者签名： 日期： 年 月 日 学位论文版权使用授权书 本学位论文作者完全了解学校有关保留、使用学位论文的规定，同意学校保留 并向国家有关部门或机构送交论文的复印件和电子版，允许论文被查阅和借阅。 本人授权湘潭大学可以将本学位论文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库进行检 索，可以采用影印、缩印或扫描等复制手段保存和汇编本学位论文。 涉密论文按学校规定处理。 作者签名： 日期： 年 月 日 导师签名： 日期： 年 月 日 Introduction Introduction 1 1 Introduction Zuo① (Left) / You (Right) Orientation What is metaphor? What is zuo (left) / you (right) orientation in the Chinese language? How is zuo (left) / you (right) orientation metaphorically extended in the Chinese language? In order to answer these questions, it is necessary to review the theory of metaphor and the concept of “zuo (left) / you (right)” orientation in the Chinese language. In daily language, “orientation” means “direction”. Space and direction are predominant and omnipresent concepts in human mind. Human beings are born with the intuition of understanding space, identifying directions and applying these concepts into their language and life. All the orientations, such as qian (front) /hou (back), zuo (left) / you (right), etc are derived from the bodily experience of space. For examples, the direction which human directly faces is called “qian (front)” and the opposite direction of “qian (front)” in the horizontal axis is “hou (back)”. The orientation of “zuo (left)” is derived from human left hand, while the orientation of “you (right)” is derived from human right hand. Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary (Extended fourth edition) (AS Hornby, 2002) defines “zuo (left)” as “of, on or towards the side of the body, which is towards the west when a person faces north”, and defines “you (right)” as “of, on or towards the side of the body, which is towards the east when a person faces north”. These are typical cases of the embodied sense of human cognition. This thesis will focus on the spatial sense and metaphorical sense of zuo (left) /