摘要
委婉语是通过一定的措词把原来令人不悦或比较粗俗的事情说得听上去比较得体、比较文雅。委婉语是一种语言的普遍现象 ,许多委婉语是通过隐喻构成的。隐喻把两个属于不同性质和范畴的事物或概念 ,通过联想的媒介加以类比和映射 ,即从一个认知域投射到另一个认知域。文章分析了委婉语中的隐喻机制 。
Euphemism is the practice of referring to something offensive or indelicate in terms that make it sound more pleasant and more elegang. Euphemism is a common phenomenon of language. Many euphemisms are constructed through metaphor. With the medium of association metaphor draws an analogy and a mapping between two things or two concepts which belong to different categories and have different natures, that is, mapping from one cognitive domain to another. This article analyzes the metaphor mechanism in euphemism and tries to explain the cognitive motivation of euphemism from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.
出处
《邵阳学院学报（社会科学版）》
2004年第4期119-121,共3页
Journal of Shaoyang University:Social Science Edition
关键词
委婉语
隐喻
认知
隐喻机制
euphemism, metaphor, cognition, mechanism in metaphor
