은유해석에 관한 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Traditionally metaphors have been regarded as a matter of figure of speech, that is, decorative devices used for literary styles. They are viewed as characteristics of language alone, a matter of words rather than thinking or action.
Now metaphors are no longer confined to the realm of stylistics. They've come to be considered to play a central role in our thinking and action and we know that they are pervasive in our everyday lives. Our ordinary conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
Substitution theory, comparison theory, and interaction theory in the field of philosophical investigations and syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic approaches in the field of linguistics have some their own good points in explaining the meaning of metaphors based on the corresponding literal counterparts with the concept of similarities. But all of them have the definite weak points not to explain metaphors when we meet the difficulties in finding similarities between tenor(target domain) and vehicle(source domain) in actual world.
Those problems can be solved well if metaphors are explained from the viewpoint of cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics accepts the attitudes of synthesis against analysis, realism against idealism, and mentalism against objectivism as well as the so-called prototype theory and schema theory. And it defines metaphor as the following: metaphor is congnitive mapping from one domain of experience to another. Lakoff & Johnson(1980) suggests three sorts of conceptual metaphors based on the above-mentioned theoretical constructs: structural metaphors, orientational metaphors and ontological metaphors. They work well for the explanation of the pervasive phenomena of metaphors in our thinking and action. They can be used to explain the novel metaphors in, for example, poems. Thus, I think I can reach the conclusion that metaphors should be interpreted with the methods of cognitive linguistics.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. 철학적 해석
• Ⅲ. 언어학적 해석
• Ⅳ. 인지언어학적 해석
• Ⅴ. 결 론
• 參 考 文 獻
• ABSTRACT