New Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine Study-A Literature Review on Metaphor in Traditional Chinese Medicine

VernacularTitle:中医语言将走向何方--中医隐喻研究文献
Author: Changliu PENG ;
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Traditional Chinese medicine; metaphor; cognitive mechanism; conceptual metaphor theory
From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2014;(6):1411-1416
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which has become the representative of traditional medicine and cul-ture, has caught the attention among people from various fields. Metaphor thinking, which exists in TCM language, has attracted multidisciplinary experts and scholars from the field of TCM study, linguistics and philosophy. This ar-ticle was aimed to collect and analyze previous study results on TCM metaphor, in order to find out the study value and explanation methods on TCM language and TCM theories. At present, there were metaphor studies in TCM in-cluding macroscopic studies based on rhetoric and cognitive linguistics, medium-scopic researches on basic TCM theories, etiology and pathogenesis, as well as microscopic studies of TCM classics language and terminology. Sys-tematic multidisciplinary studies of metaphor in TCM based on corpora will be the future study direction.