The Study Of Ningbo Dialectal Proverbs

As a mirror of Ningbo culture,Ningbo proverbs are an empirical summary of Ningbo people's production practices and social activities.Ningbo proverbs have substantial contents,involving natural phenomena,production practices,customs,culture,ways of thinking and other aspects.This thesis takes Ningbo proverbs as the research object.On the basis of collecting corpus and consulting Ningbo proverbs books,the thesis explores the linguistic characteristics,cognitive mechanism and cultural significance construction of Ningbo proverbs.The full text consists six chapters.Chapter one is the total introduction.Chapter two is the research summary and theoretical background.Chapter three to the Chapter five is the body.Chapter six is the conclusion.The first chapter clarifies the reasons and significance of the topic,introduces the general situation of Ningbo City,and explains the source of corpus and research methods.The second chapter introduces the current research situation of proverbs,including the concept and definition of proverbs,the course of proverb research,and the related research of Ningbo proverbs,then the text explains the theoretical background of this study.The third chapter investigates the linguistic features of Ningbo proverbs.In phonetics,the thesis explores the rhythm and rhyme rules of Ningbo proverbs.In terms of grammar,this paper describes and systematically analyses the syntactic structure of Ningbo proverbs.Then the text analyses the formal characteristics of single sentences,complex sentences and contracted complex sentences.In semantics,this text discusses the semantic relationship between clauses in Ningbo proverbs.In terms of rhetoric,this text explores the characteristics of proverbs inNingbo.The fourth chapter explores the cognitive mechanism of Ningbo Proverbs by applying conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy in cognitive linguistics.There are three types of Metaphors in Ningbo proverbs:Orientational Metaphor,Ontological Metaphor and Structural Metaphor.The Metonymy in Ning proverbs can be divided into two parts: the Metonymy between the whole and the parts,the Metonymy between the parts and the parts.Metaphor and Metonymy are interrelated and interacted in Ningbo proverbs.Geeraerts' pattern reflects the isomorphism and motivation of Ningbo proverbs' semantic extension.The fifth chapter studies the social meaning construction of Ningbo proverbs from sociolinguistics.Besides,this part explains the relationship between Ningbo proverbs and material culture,spiritual culture.The text summarizes cultural connotations and social function of Ningbo proverbs.The sixth chapter is the conclusion,which summarizes the linguistic features of Ningbo proverbs from the perspectives of phonetics,grammar,semantics and rhetoric,summarizes the functions of the Metaphor and Metonymy mechanisms of Ningbo proverbs from the cognitive perspective,summarizes the meaning construction of Ningbo proverbs from the sociolinguistics.Finally,the text summarizes the innovation of the thesis,finds out the inadequacies,and points out the future perspective.