When athletes make significant plays in sporting competitions, such as scoring a goal in soccer, a touchdown in American football, they often immediately express their joy by performing some bodily action for others to see and understand. Many sports celebrations are staged pantomimes that express metaphorical meanings as a part of athletes’ pretending to perform certain source-path-goal sequences of action from other competitive events. This article examines the possible metaphoricity in different sports celebrations and whether casual observers may understand these actions as conveying metaphorical messages. Studies 1 and 3 present analyses of some of the important, possibly metaphorical, characteristics of a corpus of sports celebrations, both those that are performed by individual athletes (Study 1) and those where several athletes jointly enact some celebratory action (Study 3). Studies 2 (individual athletes) and 4 (group performances) investigated whether casual spectators interpret some celebrations as conveying metaphorical messages beyond simply expressing an athlete’s positive emotions. These studies demonstrate that many sports celebrations express metaphorical meanings where athletes provide bodily commentary on the significance of what they have just accomplished.

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身体中的隐喻：体育庆祝活动中的隐喻手势

当运动员在体育比赛中发挥重要作用时，例如在足球比赛中进球，美式足球比赛中达阵，他们通常会通过做一些身体动作让其他人看到和理解来立即表达自己的喜悦。许多体育庆祝活动都是上演的哑剧，表达了隐喻的含义，这是运动员假装从其他比赛项目中执行某些源路径目标动作序列的一部分。本文探讨了在不同的体育庆祝活动中可能存在的隐喻性，以及偶然的观察者是否可以将这些动作理解为传达隐喻性信息。研究1和3分析了体育庆祝活动语料库的一些重要的，可能是隐喻的特征，由单个运动员进行的表演（研究1）和由多个运动员共同表演的庆祝活动（研究3）。研究2（个人运动员）和4（团体表演）调查了休闲观众是否将某些庆祝活动解释为传达隐喻性信息，而不仅仅是表达运动员的积极情绪。这些研究表明，许多体育庆祝活动都表达了隐喻的含义，其中运动员对他们刚刚完成的工作的重要性提供了身体上的评论。