文档介绍：中南民族大学
硕士学位论文
概念整合理论对讽刺性幽默的阐释力--以《艰难时世》为例
姓名:熊乐
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:外国语言学及应用语言学
指导教师:罗建生
2011-05-12
中南民族大学硕士学位论文
摘要
长久以来,对幽默的研究停留在生理学,心理学和社会学。随着认知语言学
的发展,对幽默的研究扩展到了语义学,语用学等领域。讽刺性幽默是幽默与讽
刺的并置,而对这类语言现象的认知语言学研究还不够深入。由 Fauconnier 和
Turner 提出的概念整合理论摒弃了传统的、静态的认知语义框架,动态的展现语
言的意义建构过程。本文试图从认知语言学的角度,运用概念整合理论,分析英
文小说中的讽刺性幽默。
本文选择了英国幽默大师 Charles Dickens 的后期代表作《艰难时世》,以分析
其讽刺性幽默的概念整合过程。本文首先介绍了概念整合网络中的类属空间、输
入空间、整合空间、跨空间映现、映射、组合、完善、扩展过程。其次,运用四
种典型的概念整合网络探讨了讽刺性幽默的生成机制。最后,在分析的基础上强
调了语境和关键关系在解读英文小说讽刺性幽默的重要作用。
本文运用概念整合理论分析了《艰难时世》中的部分讽刺性幽默语句,以此
为例来论证这一理论对理解文学作品中讽刺性幽默所具有的阐释力。文中的分析
也为读者理解和欣赏英文小说中的讽刺性幽默提供了新的视角。
关键词:讽刺性幽默; 概念整合理论;阐释力;艰难时世
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The Explanatory Power of Conceptual Integration Theory for Satirical Humor—A Case Study of Hard Times
Abstract
For centuries, the studies of humor have been limited to the fields of physiology,
sociology and psychology. With the development of cognitive linguistics, the research
of humor has extended to semantics, pragmatics and so on. Satirical humor is the
juxtaposition of humor and satire. Little evidence has been given to the analysis of this
kind of humor from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Proposed by Fauconnier
and Turner, conceptual integration theory presents us a dynamic process of the meaning
construction rather than a static cognitive semantic frame which is advocated by
traditional cognitive linguistics. The aim of the present thesis is to testify the
explanatory power of conceptual integration theory for the analysis of satirical humor in
English fiction.
In order to achieve the goal, this thesis chooses Hard Times written by Charles
Dickens who was skillful at using satirical humor. The thesis begins with the
introduction to conceptual work which includes generic space, input
space, the blend, cross-mapping, projection, composition, completion and elaboration. It
further makes an analysis of mental mechanism in satirical humor construction in