臺灣閩南語流行歌詞中的人生隱喻

Metaphors about the Life in the Taiwanese Dialect through Pop Song Lyrics

本文研究主旨在運用認知語言學（Cognitive Linguistics）中的概念隱喻理論（Conceptual Metaphor Theory）及融合理論（Blending Theory），以近二十年來（1990-2010年）臺灣閩南語流行歌詞為研究對象，探討臺灣閩南語流行歌詞中有關「人生」的隱喻（metaphor）。研究發現臺灣閩南語流行歌詞中常見的隱喻（metaphor）多源自於生活經驗及身體感知經驗，可看出外在的經驗與感知是內在心理活動的來源。其次，有的流行歌詞看似一首中包含多則隱喻，卻融合出類似的概念與想法；而有的流行歌詞看似一首只運用一種隱喻，卻融合出多樣的概念意涵（Conceptual implications）。最後，從臺灣閩南語流行歌詞常見的「人生」隱喻中，發現從來源域（source domain）到目標域（target domain）的映射（mapping），是以人們所感知的兩者之間的象似性（iconicity）為基礎的，這也印證了人們往往是以較具體的概念（concept）為基礎，來認識較抽象概念的認知歷程。

This article is aimed at using Cognitive Linguistics to analyze the metaphors and the lyrical content of pop songs. The songs are in the Taiwanese dialect and the study focuses on the effects of lyrics with people's view in life for the past 2 decades.(1990-2010).To begin with, two important theories will be introduced: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending Theory. Afterwards, these two theories will be discussed and applied to the analysation of the pop songs. Based on the results, we can discover some of the most common metaphors in the pop songs are derived from authors' personal life experiences and their view of life. At last, the metaphors about life are a mapping of people's view of life. The mapping is based on the similarities of concrete metaphors and the abstract view of life. In other words, people use their ideas about concrete concepts to help them know more about the abstract.