| 摘要: | 俗諺是流行於民間的口傳短語，人們將生活經驗與人生哲理反映其中；因此，本研究主要探討臺灣客家十二生肖俗諺的義涵為主，從中了解客家先民投射在語言符號上的思維想法，進而發現保留於語言裡的客家文化特色。本文的目的在於找出蘊藏在十二生肖背後的隱喻運作機制，並對相關俗諺的意義進行分類討論，將十二生肖與人們的事物發展、人事變化之間的連繫顯現出來，試著探討過去的社會氛圍及傳統思想之表現。
本文共分成六章，在第一章的緒論，說明研究動機與目的、研究範圍、方法與步驟以及諺語、語義、隱喻等相關文獻的回顧，並簡介所採用的理論背景，如原型範疇理論、概念隱喻理論、概念融合理論等；在第二章的部分，依各家學者的說法整理出俗諺的定義，且分析本文語料的節奏、押韻、平仄等文學韻律；第三章依據俗諺的意義特點依「家庭生活」、「人生哲理」、「氣象節令」等屬性進行分類；第四章探究俗諺內部形式的表現手法，以了解表層義與深層義之間的差異性及關聯性，並討論俗諺的表現對象之特徵；第五章以Lakoff & Johnson 的概念隱喻理論為基礎，分析俗諺的隱喻概念，找出十二生肖顯現在客家俗諺的獨有特點；第六章為結論，歸納客家十二生肖俗諺具有特別性的部分，最後提出本文研究的侷限與缺失，以及未來研究可以發展之方向。;Proverbs are a kind of folk phrases among public, and what they reflect are the experiences and philosophy of ancestors. Through classifying the meaning of the proverbs,
we discuss the relevance between zodiac signs and the general idea of Hakka. In short, the thesis deals with the implication of zodiac signs in Taiwan Hakka proverbs, and tries to figure out the notion of what Hakka have in the language. The objective of this study is to identify the metaphorical concept embodied in zodiac signs in proverbs, and then find the distinguishing feature retained in Hakka phrases.
The thesis is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is an introduction that consists of the motive and objective, scope, methodology and procedure, literature review, and theoretical background of metaphor, including Prototype Theory, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Blending Theory. The second chapter focuses on the definition of proverbs and analyzes the tempo, rhyme, and tonal pattern of material in this study. In the third chapter, we categorize the proverbs on the basis of meaning. We put emphasis on the diversity as well as relation of explicit and implicit meaning, and confer with the characteristics of expression in proverbs in chapter four. Chapter five offers the analysis on metaphorical concept of proverbs, and shows particular features appeared in Hakka proverbs. Chapter six is the conclusion, and lastly, the limitations and deficiencies of this thesis are presented as well as the possible direction of future study can be developed in this subject. |
