从文化隐喻谈“性”的语义演变

文化隐喻是指为了建构文化理论而超常使用日常词语，并赋予特定新义，使之成为一个新概念的负载形式的修辞手法。“性”作为一个哲学概念范畴在我国传统文化中占有重要地位，在其文化的承载下，也影响着“性”语义的建构与演变。以“性”字作为研究对象，讨论“性”字语义在演变发展过程中的“文化隐喻”现象，可以说明文化隐喻是词汇演变和发展的重要推动力量。

The Research into Semantic Evolvement of“NATURE”from the Cultural Metaphor

Cultural metaphor is the rhetoric which constructing the cultural theory by giving a new meaning for a daily word .NATURE plays an important role in Chinese traditional culture as a philosophical concept .NATURE also influences the construct and evolution of “semantic nature”.As the object to study , it discusses the meaning of NATURE in the evolution of the process of “cultural metaphor” phenomenon , in order to explain the cultural meta-phor is the evolution and development of the vocabulary important driving force .