A Study on Cross Domain Projection of Sensory Vocabularies from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics —A Case Study on Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream
Keywords:
Five senses; Cognition; Words; Metaphor
五种感觉;认知;词语;隐喻
Abstract:
Cognitive linguistics claims that human cognition is empirical. It highlights
cognition as the important link between reality and language. Human beings use
languages to understand the world, which follows the procedure of “reality-interaction-
image schema-category-concept-language”. Vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch are the
basic human senses. The five senses are the immediate and direct contact of man with
the world to form images and concepts. They interplay and influence each other to
help humans to understand the world around them. This paper takes I Have a Dream
as an example to analyze the relationship between words and human cognition by way
of the five senses from empirical and interactive attributes of cognitive linguistics, so
as to provide inspiration for effective understanding of the metaphorical function of
language.
认知语言学认为人类认知是经验性的。它强调认知是现实与语言之间
的重要链接。人类使用语言来理解世界遵循“现实—互动体验—意象图式—类
别—概念—语言”的过程。视觉、听觉、味觉、嗅觉、触觉是人类的基本感觉系统,
帮助人类在接触世界的过程中形成各种意象图式和概念类别。五种感觉相互影
响,促成了人类对世界的了解。从认知语言学的体验观和互动观出发,以马丁·路
德·金的《我有一个梦想》为例,从人的视、听、味、嗅、触等感觉角度分析
词语与人的认知之间的关系,从而为有效理解语言的隐喻功能提供启发。