委婉语中概念隐喻和概念转喻机制的认知分析--以经济报道中的委婉语为例

摘要

认知语言学的概念隐喻理论和概念转喻理论可用于解析委婉语的认知机制。结合该二者理论分析有关经济报道中表述经济危机的委婉语，从源域到目标域的概念化映射总结出三种委婉表达经济危机的概念隐喻类别；剖析有关经济危机的两个例句中事物之间的替代关系论证概念转喻也是构成委婉语认知机制的基础；探讨经济危机与空间概念“向下”之间的关联说明了委婉语的认知机制还可以通过概念隐喻与概念转喻的交织得以实现。%Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Metonymy Theory of cognitive linguistics can be used to analyze the cog-nitive mechanism in euphemism.Through the theoretical analysis of the two theories on the euphemistic expressions in economic reports, and the conceptual mappings from source domain to target domain, three types of conceptual metaphors of euphemisms a-bout economic crisis are summarized.The analysis of the substitution relation between subjects in two examples about economic crisis verified that conceptual metonymy is also the foundation of cognitive mechanism of euphemism.The exploration of the corre-lation between the economic crisis and the spatial concept of"down"shows that the cognitive mechanism of euphemism can also be realized through the interaction of conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonymy.