认知隐喻视野下的英汉语言性别歧视初探

语言性别歧视问题在语言学界得到越来越多的关注,传统研究往往集中在社会语言学框架内,而随着认知科学的发展,其相关理论也被应用到了语言性别歧视研究中。认知隐喻在本质上是人类思维和认知的一种方式,笔者将从认知隐喻的视角来探讨英汉语言中广泛存在的语言性别歧视现象,分别列举了三个典型的隐喻域并从象似性和文化范式视角对其进行解读,试图挖掘出语言性别歧视的认知理据。

A Study of Gender Discrimination in Chinese and English from the Perspective of Cognitive Metaphor

The issue of gender discrimination in languages has attracted more and more attention recently;however,the traditional research is confined to social linguistic field.With the great development of cognitive science,cognitive theories have already been applied to that issue.It is well known that cognitive metaphor is an approach of thinking in nature.This thesis tries to discuss the gender discrimination in both Chinese and English from the perspective of metaphors by listing three classical metaphors and in...