具身认知视域下中国古典诗词中水隐喻的认知机制研究

Research on the Cognitive Mechanism of Water Metaphor in Chinese Classical Poetry from the Perspective of Embodied Cognition

摘要: 本研究以概念隐喻理论为统摄框架，深度融合具身认知与意象图式理论，旨在系统阐释中国古典诗词中水意象作为多产性概念源域的认知生成机制。论文提出，水隐喻并非随意的文学修辞，而是一个根植于人类与水体互动之具身经验的系统性认知过程。通过剖析水的感官特征如何激活不同的身体图式，并进而向“美人”、“情感”、“美德”等抽象目标域进行结构化投射，本研究揭示了诗人如何借助水的物理形态来概念化复杂的精神世界。研究发现，水隐喻的生成具有鲜明的体验性基础与文化特异性，其映射路径受到源域与目标域在范畴层级上的策略性匹配的调节。本研究不仅为古典诗歌的“比德”传统提供了认知语言学解释，也对概念隐喻理论中关于映射不变性与语境动态性的关系提出了基于汉语诗歌语料的思考。

Abstract: This study takes conceptual metaphor theory as its core framework, incorporating perspectives from embodied cognition and image schemas to systematically investigate the cognitive generative mechanisms by which the “water” image functions as a source domain for conceptual metaphors in classical Chinese poetry. The findings reveal that the metaphorical mappings from “water” onto target domains such as “images of beauty”, “emotion”, and “virtue” constitute a conceptual projection process grounded in human embodied sensory experience and realized through structured image schemas. This process demonstrates a distinct experiential basis and cultural specificity, with its mapping pathways regulated by the strategic matching of categorical levels between the source and target domains. This research provides a cognitive linguistic explanation for the “bide” (comparing virtue to nature) tradition in classical poetry and offers reflections on the contextual dynamics of conceptual metaphor based on Chinese poetic corpus.