Cognitive Interpretation of Synaesthesia Metaphors Based on Blending Space Theory

摘要

Recently the academia tends to take synaesthesia metaphor as a cognitive phenomenon and an important part of the research of cognitive linguistics since synaesthesia metaphor symbolizes the way we perceive the world and the way we think.Blending Space Theory is a theoretical framework interpreting the cognitive activities.The present paper attempts to divide the synaesthesia metaphor into two kinds;tries to obtain the cognitive interpretation of synaesthesia metaphors based on Blending Space Theory,and further deepens people’s understanding of the research object:synaesthesia metaphor.