唐詩의 比喩에 대한 인지언어학적 접근

Abstract

Cognitive linguistics is characterized by an emphasis on explicating the intimate interrelationship between language and other cognitive faculties. Among the cognitive linguists, Gilles Fauconnier developed a theory of Mental Spaces, and this theory was later developed in collaboration with Mark Turner into a theory of Conceptual Blending, which meshes in interesting ways with both Langacker's Cognitive Grammar and Lakoff's theory of Metaphor. In this study, I applied this theory of Conceptual Blending to analyze the meaning of analogies in T'ang poetry, for conceptual blending is assumed to be ubiquitous to everyday thought and language, and its insights obtained from these blends constitute the products of creative thinking. There are three types of poems which often use a analogy in them: juxtaposition, allusion, and personification. After a research to find out the conditions in which conceptual blending occurs and the emergent structures made out of this blending, we can reach to an understanding of somewhat nebulous concepts, such as 'implied or hidden meaning' and 'suggestineness' in T'ang poetry, is actually able to be explained in detail through the conceptual blending theory. In fact, the analogies in T'ang poetry are not so common as in other country's poetry, but supposing that it has been insufficient to apply the various methodological approaches in our fields to study or teach Chinese classical literature, I think, more tries to test new theory like this are needed.