Cultural metaphors as means to contextualised understanding of child and childhood

The conceptualizations about children and childhoods enrich our understanding of adult–child interactions, educational practice, policy and child-welfare interventions. This study explored 42 cultural metaphors drawn from diverse socio-economic, geographical and linguistic settings to construct Indian childhoods. The paper reports an interpretative analysis of reconstructions leading to a typology of metaphors-in-use. The conceptual-analytical exercise helped unpack nuances and contextual meanings of metaphors. The paper argues for richness and subtlety in theorising childhoods, which is multilayered, situated and intertwined with contextual issues and tensions. The study offers methodological, pedagogical and conceptual insights and proposes possibilities for using cultural tools into inquiring childhoods.     

企业家演讲中的隐喻论证

隐喻性表达不仅可以使演讲变得形象生动，而且有时候会产生很强的劝说功能。在概念隐喻理论与图尔敏论证模型的基础上，从隐喻论证和语用论辩的角度，对企业家（以马云为例）演讲中所存在的隐喻性表达进行分析，探讨隐喻论证中的“反驳”要素，以及隐喻论证的劝说机制。     

美国总统就职演说中政治隐喻的主观性解读

作为人类认识世界的一种基本认知方法的隐喻,因其独特的体验性,会经常成为政治家们在政治中的运用。这里通过对两位美国总统就职演说中所使用的政治隐喻的对比研究,分析和揭示隐喻主观性对表达说话人的情感、视角和认识等方面所发挥的作用和意义,籍以提醒人们加深对隐喻本质特性的认识。     

Helpers “Here on the Front Lines”: Welfare‐to‐Work Managers' Moral Identity Work

Using data drawn from telephone interviews with Ohio Works First program managers (N = 69), we examine managers' moral identity work. This work included using militarized rhetoric to evoke moral identities as honorable workers. It also involved signifying helper/helpful moral identities by defining what it means to be helpful, legitimating their helper identity through connections to caseworkers, and affirming their identity through telling success stories. Additionally, managers implicitly othered clients they viewed as needy and politicians they considered to be out‐of‐touch. Our research contributes to the literature on welfare‐to‐work, but also more broadly to our understanding of moral identity work and implicit othering.     

从体验哲学的角度看英汉情感隐喻的体验性

体验哲学认为语言具有体验性,强调意义不是来自与外在客观世界的对应,而是来源于人类的身体体验、社会经验和主客体的多重互动认知理解。情感是人类最重要、最普遍的人生体验。在语言中,人的抽象情感在很大程度上是通过建立在个体感知基础上的隐喻表达的。通过分析英汉语言中广泛存在的情感隐喻,说明了情感隐喻的体验性,这也成为体验哲学更进一步的证明。     

跨文化语境下隐喻的识解与认知图式的构建

无论是日常交流还是学术探讨我们都不可避免的碰到隐喻的表达方式。对英语语言中的隐喻的理解和学习有助于我们了解英语民族文化,发现英、汉民族文化的畀同,从而培养跨文化意识、提升跨文化交流的效果。本文从认知的角度提出隐喻识解的图式建构框架。     

跨语言爱情隐喻异同的认知理据与哲学文化渊源考辨

隐喻不仅是一种语言现象,更是一种思维方式,是对抽象概念认知和表达的强有力的工具和武器。爱情作为一种极其抽象复杂的概念,常常需要借助隐喻机制才能得以最充分的演绎和阐释。在汉英语言中,采用隐喻机制来表达＂爱情＂的语言形式比比皆是。本文以认知隐喻理论为背景,在大量搜集和整合跨语言爱情隐喻表述的基础上,从共时角度对比汉英语言在爱情概念的异同,尝试性地探索人类思维及文化因素对隐喻生成与阐释的影响,挖掘其背后深层次的认知理据和哲学文化渊源。     

介词with的认知语义研究

从认知的角度研究介词with的空间语义及其意象图式。以空间语义为基础,通过空间隐喻,介词with延伸出五种表示非空间关系的隐喻语义。通过分析介词with空间语义与非空间语义的联系,帮助学习者更好地理解和记忆该词。     

苗族诗歌中的兴观群怨

以比较文学的研究方法,用跨文化的独特视角,借用中国古代诗论中的＂兴观群怨＂说去观照苗族诗歌。通过较为详尽的分类举证分析,证明了苗族各类诗歌同样具有＂兴观群怨＂的所有表达方式与全部功能。这对于包括苗族诗歌在内的苗学研究提供了方法论上的探索与进取,同时也以苗族诗歌研究的实证,丰富发展了中国古代汉语诗论的理论体系。     

Mobility and Privilege Within Queer Studies and University

In this essay, the author considers how classist divisions present within queer studies may well be exacerbated by the institutionalization of queer studies within university. In particular, she examines the class privilege that attends both queer theory's and university's deployment of travel metaphors. In both cases, the language of travel is the potentially empowering language of intellectual agility and social mobility. Importantly, though, both queer theorists' and university administrators' employment of travel metaphors often serves to reaffirm cultural hegemony, specifically to sustain rather than to examine and combat social oppression. This sad irony is particularly apparent when one compares university representations of commuter and residential students. Thus, the question that faces universities is how to keep queer studies critically queer so that universities can recognize and address the various forms or models of social mobility that are present on their campuses, commuter as well as residential.