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1、 Metaphor and the Historical Evolution of Conceptual Mapping Also by Richard Trim METAPHOR NETWORKS: THE COMPARATIVE EVOLUTION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE THROUGH OTHER EYES: THE TRANSLATION OF ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE IN EUROPE (co-editor with Sophie Alatorre) Metaphor and the Historical Evolution of Conce
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8、21 20191817161514131211 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne Contents List of Figuresix Prefacexi Acknowledgementsxv Part IConceptual Mapping in Thought and Language 1Conceptualisation Processes3 1.1Reasons for conceptual mapping3 1.2A global model of evol
9、ution4 1.3 The historical importance of fi gurative language as seen in literary symbolism5 1.4Debates on mapping functions10 1.5Visual conceptualisation12 1.6Auditory conceptualisation13 1.7Olfactory conceptualisation15 1.8Taste conceptualisation16 1.9Embodiment in basic conceptualisation processes
10、17 1.10 Cultural and individual fl exibility19 1.11Basic parameters in mapping models23 2The Thought/Language Interface25 2.1The triggering of words25 2.2Choices of words and prototypes28 2.3The impact of language on thought29 2.4 Syntactic infl uence of language31 2.5 The infl uence of phonology an
11、d polysemy34 2.6Linguistic transformations at the thought/language interface36 2.7Conceptual extension in single lexical items38 2.8Conceptual extension in lengthy linguistic structures39 2.9The diachronic interface and historical linguistics42 2.10Diachronic continuity in conceptual and linguistic
12、components48 v viContents 2.11Combinations of features in diachronic conceptual mapping and linguistic form50 Part IIDiachronic Conceptual Systems 3Diachronic Universality55 3.1Anglo-Saxon images55 3.2Theories on universals56 3.3Universal love metaphors61 4Diachronic Conceptual Variation66 4.1Proble
13、ms with universal assumptions66 4.2Diachronic variation in conceptual metaphor67 4.3Images of anger in Old English68 4.4Variation between diachronic systems69 4.5Differing historical viewpoints70 4.6Cross-cultural variation in universal candidates71 4.7Within-culture features72 4.8Diachronic network
14、s and conceptual systems73 4.9Conceptual sections of the language community76 4.10Individual mappings and poetic licence78 4.11Sociolects82 4.12Cultural history86 4.13Duration of conceptual systems87 5Diachronic Salience in Love Analogies90 5.1Love: past and present90 5.2Cultural sub-parameters of l
15、ove91 5.3Medieval sexual economics94 5.4Mappings in courtly love96 5.5 The infl uence of the Church in medieval marriage customs97 5.6Secular attitudes in the Middle Ages98 5.7Medieval ironic and comic analogy101 5.8Multiple sub-categories of salience102 5.9Salience and prototypical weighting105 6Se
16、mantic Fields and Colour109 6.1Long-term cultural paths according to semantic fi eld109 6.2 Uniformity in semantic fi elds110 6.3 Source and target domains of semantic fi elds111 6.4Directionality of mapping112 Contentsvii 6.5Scales of universal/cultural trends according to semantic fi eld113 6.6 The semantic fi eld of colour115 6.7Diachronic variation in colour117 6.8Basic principles in diachronic colour patterns: Shakespeares metaphors118 6.9Long-term diachronic paths as a cultural