Abstract Cognitive semiotics is a new field for the study of meaning in trans-disciplines, such as semiotics, cognitive linguistics, and corpus linguistics. This paper aims at studying how cognitive semiotics is employed to construe conceptual metaphors in discourse. We conducted a corpus-based study, with Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and Fauconnier and Turner’s Blending Theory (BT), to illustrate our cognitive-semiotic model for metaphors in Dragon Seed, written by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. The major finding is that metaphors are mental constructions involving many spaces and mappings in the cognitive-semiotic network. These integration networks are related to encoders’ cognitive, cultural, and social contexts. Additionally, cognitive semiotics can be employed to construe conceptual metaphors in discourse vividly and comprehensively and thus is helpful to reveal the ideology and the theme of the discourse.

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话语中的隐喻认知符号学

摘要认知符号学是研究符号学，认知语言学和语料库语言学等跨学科意义的新领域。本文旨在研究如何使用认知符号学来建构话语中的概念隐喻。我们利用Lakoff和Johnson的概念隐喻理论（CMT）以及Fauconnier和Turner的融合理论（BT）进行了基于语料库的研究，以说明由诺贝尔奖获得者Pearl S. Buck编写的《龙种子》中隐喻的认知符号模型。 。主要发现是，隐喻是在认知符号网络中涉及许多空间和映射的心理构造。这些集成网络与编码器的认知，文化和社会环境有关。此外，