国内转喻认知研究发展趋势的可视化分析

采用CiteSpace可视化分析软件，对1999—2018年CNKI数据库中转喻认知研究核心期刊文献进行科学知识图谱剖析，探讨国内转喻认知研究的总体趋势、核心作者群、研究热点、研究前沿等问题。研究发现：1）国内转喻认知研究总体上呈现波浪形上升趋势；2）研究热点包括转喻本体研究、转喻与隐喻的关系研究、转喻在不同语言层面（词汇、语法、语用、语篇等）的应用研究等；3）研究前沿涵盖转喻与构式语法、语用推理、（概念）隐喻、范畴化、意象图式、转喻的本质与认知机制、语法转喻等；4）研究方法多为思辨研究，缺乏实证实验研究。

A Visualized Analysis on the Cognitive Studies of Metonymy in China

This research makes a visualized mapping knowledge domain analysis on the related publications about metonymy retrieved from CNKI (1999-2018) with the aid of CiteSpace, which aims to explore the tendency, core authors, research hotspots and frontiers. The results reveal that: 1) the cognitive studies on metonymy emerge a wave like increasing tendency in China; 2) research hotspots include: metonymy ontology research, the relationship between metonymy and metaphor, the application of metonymy at different language levels (vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics, discourse, etc.); 3) research frontiers contain: metonymy and construction grammar, pragmatic reasoning, (conceptual) metaphor, categorization, image schema, the nature and cognitive mechanism of metonymy, grammatical metonymy, etc.; 4) the current research methods almost involve with critical thinking styles instead of empirical ones.