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摘要
情感的空间隐喻在将感觉运动体验映射到情绪状态方面表现出显著的跨语言一致性,反映了我们的身体如何记录情感的高度相似性。然而,与此同时,情感是复杂的,从垂直空间概念到情感状态的映射可能不止一种。在这里,我们考虑了一个以前未报道的空间隐喻映射到泰国和老挝的一种南亚语言Mlabri中理想的和不理想的情感体验的案例,为隐喻和认知语言学的研究做出了新的贡献。使用第一手语料库和启发数据,我们研究了隐喻表达:klol jur“心往下”和klol kh k k n“心往下”/ klol k k k b k jur“心不往下”。虽然反映了一种与通常报道的“快乐向上”隐喻相反的隐喻映射,据说它与普遍的身体情感相关有关,但Mlabri隐喻远非特殊的。相反,它们是建立在积极的低唤醒状态的身体体验的基础上的,反映了一种以满足和平静为中心的理想情感的主流观点。这强调了情感的身体体验的复杂性,表明文化以不同的方式利用可用的感觉运动相关的情感。
The heart’s downward path to happiness: cross-cultural diversity in spatial metaphors of affect
Spatial metaphors of affect display remarkable consistencies across languages in mapping sensorimotor experiences onto emotional states, reflecting a great degree of similarity in how our bodies register affect. At the same time, however, affect is complex and there is more than a single possible mapping from vertical spatial concepts to affective states. Here we consider a previously unreported case of spatial metaphors mapping down onto desirable, and up undesirable emotional experiences in Mlabri, an Austroasiatic language of Thailand and Laos, making a novel contribution to the study of metaphor and Cognitive Linguistics. Using first-hand corpus and elicitation data, we examine the metaphorical expressions: klol jur ‘heart going down’ and klol khɯn ‘heart going up’/ klol kɔbɔ jur ‘heart not going down’ . Though reflecting a metaphorical mapping opposite to the commonly reported happy is up metaphor, which is said to link to universal bodily correlates of emotion, the Mlabri metaphors are far from idiosyncratic. Rather, they are grounded in the bodily experience of positive low-arousal states, and in that reflect an emic view of ideal affect centered on contentment and tranquility. This underscores the complexity of bodily experience of affect, demonstrating that cultures draw on the available sensorimotor correlates of emotion in distinct ways.
期刊介绍:
Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon. Topics the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery); the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity; the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics; the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background; the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity.