英文摘要 |
Frames, also known as scripts, scenarios, or scenes, are packages of knowledge about a coherent segment of experience, and they often impose a certain perspective on a situation. The coherent package of knowledge that surrounds a category is activated when we use or hear a word. This paper discusses the metaphorical interpretations in classical Chinese discourse within the framework of Mental Space Theory (Fauconnier, 1994, 1997; Fauconnier & Turner, 2002). It has shown how an entire frame is activated by a single word and how the activated frames become different source domains which a single target attaches to. The mapping of different source domains to one target domain imposes different perspectives on a situation and accounts for multiple understandings of the same situation. |