中国股市隐喻性词语的形成途径及成因

西方股票市场至今已有将近四百年历史,衍生出的常用股市术语有两百多个。股市在中国大陆的发展经历了两个分裂的阶段,一是清末到解放前随着国门打开,西方资本涌入导致的股市勃兴;二是二十世纪八十年代末随着中国大陆股份制企业的建立而兴起的股市热潮。在这两个阶段的发展中,涌现出了大量股市专门词语,其中有许多词语是带有隐喻性质的,本文将结合认知隐喻学的相关知识,探寻这些词语的形成途径和成因。

Ways and Causes of the Metaphorically Specialized Words of Stock Market

So far, the western stock market has had a history of nearly 400 years, which derived more than two hundred common terms of stock markets. The development of the stock market in Chinese mainland has been split up into two stages. The first stage is that the vigorous growing of the stock market due to the influx of the western capital with the open of our country to the world from the end of Qing dynasty to the liberation; the second one is about the stock market boom resulted from the establishment of the joint-stock enterprises in Chinese mainland in the end of 1980s. During the two stages, plenty of stock market specialized words came out, many of which were metaphorical. The paper will explore the ways and causes of the formation of the words, combining with the cognitive metaphor studies.