Research On Changsha Dialect Metaphor

This paper mainly studied on Changsha dialect metaphor. The field method and some others were adopted with a great numbers of linguistic facts. The rich elements were seriously collected and observed by way of analysis, comparison and induction. Thereafter, the key points of analogy compound words, analogy idioms and figures of speech in Changsha dialect were deeply explored.The contexts could be divided into five chapters.In the first chapter, there was a brief introduction to the realistic significance and researches actualities of the discussed topic. Then the research focus, methods and corpus sources were accordingly presented in the paper.In the second chapter, the types of analogy compound words and structure forms of metaphor phrases type, semantic composition in Changsha dialect were centered on. It was brought forward those Changsha dialect analogy compound words could be characterized as four basic metaphor classes, i.e. the pre-metaphor, the post-metaphor, the middle-metaphor and the full-metaphor. Moreover, such compound words as the pre-metaphor, post-metaphor or full-metaphor could be further divided into subcategories of types. In addition, the Changsha dialect analogy phrases might be distinguished as two major categories of analogy phrase-phrase and compound sentence-style idiom. To illustrate, the idiomatic phrase type might be marked with several labels such as verb-object style metaphor idiom, VR metaphor phrase, verb metaphor phrase, partial formal analogy to the phrase, joint-style metaphor idiom and even that metaphor idiom.In the third chapter, a more comprehensive analysis of the figures of speech was carried out in Changsha dialect. The ontology and metaphor was summarized from the figures of speech connection mode, resulting in a division of vocabulary and grammar forms. Then the similarities of analogy words in sentence looming were seriously analyzed in the mass, namely:the existence of zero form, direct indication of similarities and similarities implied in the beginning of morphemes. Henceforth what were emphasized were the different vocabulary and mandarin connections and similarities implied in the beginning of morphemes. The distinct structures of simile, metaphor and metonymy were summed up afterwards, and then the analogy structure was focused in the paper.In the fourth chapter, there lies a detailed summary of the main sources of the figure of speech in Changsha dialect. Accordingly, the main features of metaphor that comes mainly from Changsha dialect metaphor vehicles. Five aspects were mentioned, namely the animal areas, eating areas of production and life tools, human body organs or excreta, literature, local characteristics of figures or religious belief. On the basis of that, the four characters of Changsha dialect body were summarized and analyzed, including:the visual images, distinct regional, richness of given figures of speech and relative stability of the common.In the last chapter, the geographical and cultural connotations were analyzed, which was presented in Changsha dialect metaphor. Mainly the rice culture, food culture and ghost culture were involved.