英文摘要 |
Zhuangzi being a classic work which provides enlightening and educational value is considered to made many contributions to Chinese philosophy. Zhuangzi who is regarded as one of the founders of Taoism wrote rich fables. The questions and answers he put forward are eternal and considered universal wisdom. Zhuangzi metaphorized stories to make abstract concepts concrete and easy to understand, and to allow readers to better grasp its meaning. Over the past dynasties, there have been a lot of research on Zhuangzi, mainly focusing on collation and observation, rationale elaboration, textual exegesis, etc. In recent years, it has developed, diversified and extended to the fields of literature, aesthetics and linguistics. With the rise of cognitive science in the 20th century, the metaphor-view of cognitive linguistics has gradually developed and attracted attention from a wider audiences. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson mentioned in Metaphors We Live By that metaphor is the use of one thing to understand or experience another. In this way, the ''metaphor'' here is ''conceptual metaphor'', which is different from the ''metaphor'' in rhetoric. Conceptual metaphors can be divided into orientational metaphors, ontological metaphors, and structural metaphors. Lakoff and Johnson first proposed in-depth analysis of metaphors from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, and developed it into a universal linguistic ability and way of thinking for human beings. Therefore, this article takes ''Nourishing the Lord of Life (yangshengzhu)'' in Zhuangzi as the research object, and uses the ''conceptual metaphor'' of cognitive linguistics as a research approach to analyze the cognitive level, from the ''source domain'', the ''target domain'' and the ''mapping domain''. The process of ''mapping'' further explores the deep-seated structure of the mental operation of ''Nourishing the Lord of Life (yangshengzhu)''. As a linguistic phenomenon, conceptual metaphor is not only a linguistic expression, but also a universal way of cognition. Through the analysis of ''Nourishing the Lord of Life (yangshengzhu)'', I hope to analyse the ''Tao'' presented by Zhuangzi and the ''Tao'' that readers perceive, and then sort out the commonalities of its cognitive metaphors from the perspective of traditional Chinese culture. |