Human Body Metaphors in Shakespeare's Sonnets——An Embodied Cognition Analysis

doi:10.11885/j.issn.1674-5094.2018.04.15.03

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Abstract: In Shakespear's sonnets, we can find a large number of words of human body and a variety of rhetorical devices, such as personification,simile,metaphor,metonymy,synecdoche and so on. Metaphorical rhetoric is one of the characteristics of Shakespeare's language. With the development of cognitive linguistics,metaphor is not only regarded as a rhetorical device, but also as a cognitive method. Human body is the foundation of human's understanding of the world and the metaphorization of human body is a metaphorical concept based on the basic experience of human body on its own perception. So,the formation of human body metaphor is the inevitable result of the interaction between human survival activities and cognitive thinking. Words of human body are frequently used in Shakespeare's sonnets, and forms rich metaphorical meanings through the projection between different conceptual domains. This paper attempts to analyze the cognitive rationale and metaphorical projection modes of human body metaphors from the perspective of embodied cognition, to explore the important role of human body metaphors in constructing the theme of sonnets, and to help readers have a better understanding of the connotation of sonnets.

Key words: Shakespeare, sonnets, embodied cognition, cognitive rationale, human body metaphor

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I106

Xie Shijian, Lang Rujuan. Human Body Metaphors in Shakespeare's Sonnets——An Embodied Cognition Analysis[J]. 西南石油大学学报(社会科学版), 2018, 20(6): 107-114.

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