基于概念整合理论的翻译过程探索

从概念整合这一独特的认知视角出发,总结与分析已有的翻译过程模式,提出一个包括＂解读源文＂和＂创建译文＂两个整合过程的七空间概念整合模式,以期更好地阐释翻译活动,体现翻译的特性。     

从以动物为喻体的英汉比喻中看文化差异

在英汉两种语言中，都有用动物作喻体来表达某种抽象意义或某种情感。但是，由于英汉两个民族有着不同的生存环境及不同的文化背景，因此，用动物作喻体所承载的社会文化涵义在两个民族中有相同之处，也有不同之处，有的甚至完全相悖。     

隐喻的认知机制:概念整合及影响隐喻构成的因素

本文首先概述了概念整合理论的基本内容和观点,并以实例分析了隐喻的认知机制是概念整合的"四空间"交互作用的语义认知模型和以心理空间为基础的相互关系、相互作用的认知过程;指出概念整合是一种普遍的认知活动,对隐喻具有强大的解释力。最后探讨了在概念整合框架下,影响隐喻阐释的因素。     

隐喻的认知阐释

从认知角度来考察隐喻,不仅为隐喻的研究提供了一个崭新的视角,也较好地揭示了隐喻理解的本质。本文选取了隐喻研究史上三种较有代表性的认知理论,即Richards和Black的"互动理论";Lakoff和Johnson的"概念隐喻理论"以及Sperber和Wilson的"关联理论"来探讨它们各自对隐喻阐释的理据、方式及局限性,以便从认知的角度更好地理解隐喻。     

试论维吾尔语中的比喻及其民族文化特征

文章对维吾尔语中的比喻研究现状及维吾尔语中比喻分类观点不一致、比喻可供分析实例不丰富、比喻文化特征研究和归纳不够深入全面等问题进行了分析，并对比喻中的明喻、暗喻和借喻三种类型作了扼要阐述，同时从比喻的构成与内容、喻体的色彩两个角度深入探讨了维吾尔语比喻的文化特征。     

英语中的Metaphor和汉语中暗喻的对比

英语中修辞格Metaphor的定义、起源、分类特征与汉语中暗喻有相同、相异之处，比如本喻体在句中出现情况，本体和喻体在句中的相似处等，掌握这些异同，将更清楚地了解Metaphor的特点和用法。     

药草诚多喻:论唐诗的药意象

唐诗中的药意象所隐含的社会文化意义有二:第一,因疾病所表达的身体政治的隐喻,用以治疗疾病的药也由此被赋予了解救人生困厄含义;第二,虽然炼丹服食在唐代拥有广泛的社会基础,但炼丹技术始终只被少数人所掌握,文人们对于丹药的喜好,多体现在服食而非炼制方面。药意象的蕴义在不同的时代有所变化,即由最初表达文人士大夫淡泊名利、保全天真的隐逸情怀,到反映文人们亦官亦隐、泯灭出处的精神追求,最后成为谋取功名富贵的象征。换言之,药与隐逸文化的关系,折射出唐代文人士大夫阶层内在结构的变迁以及他们精神的蜕变。     

英语学习者的隐喻跨文化理解调查研究

二语隐喻理解的过程受制于学习者的文化背蓄及认知心理。本研究对英语学习者隐喻理解过程中使用的认知手段及母语文化背景影响实施调查。研究发现：学习者理解隐喻的主要方式包括依据喻体特征展开联想;以喻体的文化意象进行推理;利用视觉刺激信息等。母语文化则推进了理解过程中的语言迁移及文化经验图式的迁移,     

Classification hierarchies for product data modelling

Abstraction is an essential element in data modelling that appears mainly in one of the following forms: generalisation, classification or aggregation. In the design of complex products classification hierarchies can be found product families that are viewed as classes of product types, while product types are seen as classes of product instances. So far data models, if they support levels of classification, do not support the inheritance of product properties the way product family hierarchies are supposed to. This paper proposes an interpretation of the member of construct that enables one to define inheritance in classification hierarchies. Unified modelling language (UML) static structures are used as data modelling language. A textual notation is added that enables the introduction of data structures and corresponding data contents in the course of an analysis.     

Economic metaphors and working knowledge: enter the 'cogito-economic' subject

This paper probes the effects upon people of defining knowledge primarily in economic terms. It asserts that the language of commerce increasingly appropriates 'knowledge' by defining it in such terms. Theoretically, the analysis draws on the work of Jacques Derrida to explore the effects of metaphors in human resource management and development environments. The paper explores the ways that metaphors can become powerful signifiers of knowledge at work. As critical technologies of representation, the metaphors that have emerged out of recent theorizations of knowledge at work have contributed to a powerful discourse that defines people as 'knowledge workers'. It is argued here that dominant views of 'what constitutes a knowledge worker' imply that subjects are both 'knowledge workers' (cogito) and 'human resources' (economic) - thus the title 'cogito-economic subjects'. By defining people in this way, it is argued that there are potential dangers of metaphors becoming reified with knowledge becoming describable only in economic terms, and people describable only in cogito-economic terms.