漢語和德語中的情緒與理性：力圖式與生命體暗喻詞

Emotion and rationality in Mandarin Chinese and German: Force schema and life-form metaphors

Animals and plant species have biological features similar to those of humans. In Lakoff and Turner‘s‘Great Chain of Being‘metaphor, human beings are ranked at the highest order, followed by other animals, and finally, plants. Human, animal and plant metaphors play important role in languages; they are all life-form metaphors. This paper aims to examine the different semantic roles of animal and plant metaphors in languages by means of two different cognitive models. The metaphors of two unrelated languages, Chinese and German, were chosen to demonstrate that the psychobiological basis and the conceptions work analogically in both languages.