A Cognitive Study of the Persuasive Function of Metaphor in Advertising a Cognitive Study of the Persuasive Function of Metaphor in Advertising

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编号 [pic] 本科生毕业设计(论文) 题目: A Cognitive Study of the Persuasive Function of Metaphor in Advertising 外国语 学院 英语 专业 学 号 0902050204 学生姓名 石明星 指导教师 董剑桥 教授 谢竞贤 讲师 二〇〇九年六月 摘 要 西方对隐喻的研究由来已久,自亚里士多德研究开始,大致经历了三个阶段:20世纪30年代以前的修辞学研究,20世纪30年代到70年代的语义学研究,20世纪70年代以后的多学科研究。隐喻作为人类最原始的思维方式之一,引起了国内外诸多学者的兴趣。如今,各个分支的语言学家正从语义学、语用学、关联理论、认知学等方面来研究隐喻。广告,伴随着商品交换的产生而产生,伴随着商品生产的发展和科学技术的进步而繁荣发展。广告通过诸多修辞手段吸引观众以达到其劝说功能。隐喻就是其中之一。一方面隐喻通过增强广告的形象性来吸引公众的兴趣,另一方面又通过刺激观众的认知机制,引起观众的共鸣。广告语的研究,特别是广告语的劝说功能的研究也是许多学者关注的焦点。这篇论文旨在从认知语言学角度,主要通过概念整合理论来研究隐喻如何在广告语中实现其劝说功能。同时本文认为概念整合理论在分析隐喻时存在一些局限性,希望建立更系统化的隐喻分析理论。 关键词:隐喻;概念整合理论;广告;劝说 ABSTRACT The scholars in western countries have studied metaphors for a long time. There have been generally three periods since the Aristotle times: the first period is the rhetoric study of metaphors before the 1930s; the second period is the semantic study of metaphors from 1930s to 1970s; the third period is the multi-disciplinary study of metaphors after the 1970s. As one of the most primitive thinking modes of human beings, metaphor has aroused interest of many scholars both at home and abroad. Nowadays, liguists from various branches are studying metaphors from Semantics, Pragmatics, the Relevance Theory, the Cognitive Science, etc. The advertising, which comes into being as a result of the emergence of goods exchange, develops with the advancement in goods production as well as science and technology. The advertising attracts the public’s attention and performs its persuasive funtion through the employment of various rhetoric devices. Metaphor is one of them. On the one hand, metaphor develops the public’s interest by strengthening the figurativeness of advertising; on the other hand, it stimulates the cognitive mechanism of the

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