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The Research On The Metaphor In Contemporary Children’s Songs

Posted on:2015-10-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X F ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330479983886Subject:Chinese Philology
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The traditional concept of metaphor as a metaphor rhetoric, with the development of linguistics, people come to realize the nature of metaphor is the way of thinking and cognitive means. But no matter what kind of perspective, and literary metaphors are always closely linked. Often overlooked songs, but also a literary way, not only has a variety of rhetorical skill and expression, it is a colorful metaphor for the world. Select this article published since the eighties, widely circulated works of many outstanding songs, from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, the main use of conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual integration theory, adaptation theory, relevance theory, semiotics, etc., on the songs of metaphor for the interpretation of linguistics, cognitive metaphor analysis of specific songs used in the works.First, the performance level of the multi- select some typical images to construct a metaphor to convey information, such as gardens, greenery, moon and stars and so on. These things through the author’s subjective and objective process which has been given a lot of emotional significance. Secondly, the level of mechanism, the authors selected through imagery, mental space to build, thereby activating the cross- space mapping concepts, through the integration of generic space and portfolio expansion, improve cognitive approaches to achieve meaningful innovation generation layer. Third, build motivation and functional level, the paper selected cognitive, linguistic and psychological analyzes three aspects of cognitive metaphor, language and aesthetic functions. Fourth, in the metaphorical understanding and acceptance level, the use of relevance theory, theory and conform to the theory of semiotics were systematically analyzed to explore the songs metaphor in building cognitive context, to achieve textual coherence; adapt to the reality of language, social mechanism of action and work the body and the respective symbols Vehicles, explain things, objects and other aspects of the realization of the interaction; communicative and psychological motivations.
Keywords/Search Tags:Children’s songs metaphor, Cognitive Linguistics, Conceptual metaphor, Relevance Theory, Adaptation Theory
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