ABSTRACT:Metaphor is a common phenomenon in every language and emotion，which is abstract in nature，and is one of the most central and pervasive aspects of human experience．So，more often than that，people express their feelings or emotions with metaphors．There are a lot of similarities and differences between English emotions metaphors and the Chinese ones as emotions may have the same psychological effects on different people of different languages and may cause the physical reactions. By choosing emotion metaphors in weather words as the focus of investigation, this research makes a comparison between English and Chinese. Five emotions, including happiness, anger, indifference, sadness and fear, are chosen in this research and we examine them in order to see how they are expressed metaphorically through weather words. Based on a qualitative analysis of a large amount of linguistic data of both dictionaries and on-line corporation, this thesis tends to display how weather words are employed metaphorically in terms of emotion metaphors of these five emotions and explain the similarities and differences between English and Chinese.
Key Words: metaphor; emotion metaphor; weather words
摘要:隐喻作为一种普遍的语言现象，在各种语言中均有所体现。情感这一抽象的概念常常是用隐喻来表达的。英、汉两种语言中都有大量表达情感的隐喻，这些情感隐喻存在着一定的共性和个性，这源于人类的生理特征和情感体验。本文选取五类情感,包括快乐,愤怒,冷漠,悲伤以及恐惧,基于词典及语料库,找出英汉语中能反映该五类情感的有关天气词,并通过例句分析英汉语如何采用天气词隐喻各类情感,然后进行英汉对比,归纳总结出英汉语中天气词语情感隐喻的共性与个性。
关键词：隐喻；情感隐喻；天气词语
There are some famous words in ancient times in China. One of them says” the victory of the war needs three important conditions: the good weather, favorable geographical position and the support of people.” But what is the real relationship between the weather and the wars？And does the weather have big influence on the wars?
In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, led his Grand Army into Russia. And he had an army of fearsome strength. With the hope of victory, he lost in the end. Maybe he was a great fighter and leader in the war. But comparing with the raw, bleak, bitter Russian winter, he was so weak and had no way to win. So what can we get from this war? We can see the weather causes thousands of soldiers’ deaths. Man may change the history but man can’t change the nature. Also during the World War Ⅱ, Germans hated the weather very much. When Hitler attacked England, he got so many troubles. The weather in England is changeful, which became the advantage to the English army in the war. So the weather in England turned into a secret and no weather forecast was given in those years. That’s why the English like talking about weather when they meet each other. What a closed relationship between the weather and the wars it is!
