对文学语篇进行认知语言学分析的潮流源于快速发展的认知语言学。认知语言学主要涉及转喻认知理论和隐喻认知理论,其中,最常用于解读文学作品的是认知隐喻理论。作为认知语言学中这两个理论的创始人,M.Johnson和G.Lakoff认为:被学界广泛应用的语言修辞手段隐喻在更大意义上来说是一种思维方式,作为一种映射,其意象图式是抽象的,方式是从一个具体的、比较容易熟悉和理解的源域(source domain) The trend of cognitive linguistic analysis of literary texts stems from the rapid development of cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics mainly involves metonymy cognitive theory and metaphorical cognitive theory. Among them, cognitive linguistics is the most commonly used theory to interpret literary works. As the founder of these two theories in cognitive linguistics, M. Johnson and G. Lakoff argue that the metaphor of linguistic rhetoric widely used in academia is a way of thinking in a larger sense. As a kind of mapping, Image schema is abstract, the way is from a specific, easier to understand and understand the source domain (source domain)