英汉常规触觉隐喻的认知比较

英语、汉语中广泛存在着常规触觉隐喻。研究表明，两种语言体系具有一致性，触觉领域都向非触觉领域影射。也就是说，人们有时是从触觉领域来理解表达非触觉概念的；而且这种触觉隐喻已经常规化了，其隐喻意义已经完全不被人们所感知；另一方面，英、汉常规触觉隐喻也由于所处文化不同呈现出显著的差异。

A Cognitive Study of Tactile based Conventional Metaphors between Chinese and English

An analysis is conducted on Chinese and English tactile based conventional metaphors.As research reveals,there are some correspondence between the two languages.In both languages,tactile category maps to nontactile categories;that is,we understand some nontactile things from the view of tactile sensations.Moreover,this usage is already conventionalized and we can not sense its metaphorical meanings at all.On the other hand,there are also great differences between Chinese and English conventional tactile metaphors,which are mainly caused by different cultures.