为促进学院师生与国际知名专家学者之间的学术交流与合作，推动华中科技大学外国语学院语言学研究中心的建设与发展，开阔我院教师及研究生的学术视野，特邀请国际著名隐喻研究专家、美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学Ning Yu教授来我院举办学术讲座。欢迎对隐喻、认知语言学、词汇语义学、对比语言学、文化语言学等领域感兴趣的老师和同学参加。
【讲座题目】Chinese Anger Metaphor Revisited: Body, Culture, and Language
【讲座时间】2024年5月17日 星期五 15:00-16:30
【讲座地点】华中科技大学逸夫科技楼南楼109
【主办单位】华中科技大学外国语学院语言学研究中心
【内容提要】
Linguistic study of how emotions are expressed metaphorically is one of the central areas of interdisciplinary research on metaphor. Such study, if conducted systematically, can help bring to light the intricate relationship between body, culture, and language in metaphorical conceptualization. Based on Lakoff and Kövecses’ (1987) study on anger metaphor in American English, Yu (1995) contains a lexical study of anger metaphors in Chinese in comparison with English. It was found that anger is conceptualized in terms of “heat” (i.e., rise of body temperature) and “internal pressure” (i.e., body, or a part of it, as a container) in both English and Chinese as a result of embodied understanding of emotion. Hence, the HEAT metaphor (ANGER IS HEAT) is applicable in both languages. At a more specific level, however, English and Chinese exhibit both a commonality and a discrepancy. They share the FIRE metaphor (ANGER IS FIRE), but differ in the second one: the FLUID metaphor (ANGER IS FLUID IN HEATED CONTAINER) in English vs. the GAS metaphor (ANGER IS GAS IN HEATED CONTAINTER) in Chinese. Ever since that study was done three decades ago, metaphor research has undergone much development, including the emergence, growth, and flourish of multimodal and corpus-based studies. This talk on Chinese anger metaphor will present some multimodal evidence and new results from linguistic research. The linguistic part is based on a recent study, using mixed methods of lexical and corpus-based approaches, which will appear in a milestone volume (Kövecses et al., in press) that comprises studies of anger metaphors in dozens of different languages over the world.
【主讲人简介】
Ning Yu is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests lie in the relationship between language, culture, and cognition, cognitive linguistics, and the cognitive approach to metaphor studies. His publications include The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A Perspective from Chinese (Benjamins 1998), The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective: Culture, Body, and Language (de Gruyter 2009), and From Body to Meaning in Culture: Papers on Cognitive Semantic Studies of Chinese (Benjamins 2009). Yu’s latest monograph, The Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach, was published from Oxford University Press in 2022.
外国语学院语言学研究中心
2024年5月14日
