婚姻可能是一种美化的交易关系吗?对多洛语中婚姻类比的认知融合方法

G. O. Ogal, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa, Evelyn Mahero
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在过去的几十年里,随着人们将其他生活目标置于婚姻承诺之上,结婚率不断下降。虽然对这种趋势变化的解释是多方面的,但学术证据表明,对婚姻的负面描述使许多年轻人对婚姻制度望而生畏。每个社会都为其人民提供了经验、态度和语言资源,使他们能够将婚姻等抽象现象概念化。在此背景下,本研究试图分析多洛人对婚姻的类比,揭示文化资源和经验如何影响婚姻的概念化。本研究采用描述性研究设计。研究数据通过访谈收集。四十(40)名讲基苏木南尼安萨(KSN)方言的人被要求提供用于描述多洛(Dholuo)婚姻的类比。共收集到 66 个类比。四位注释者使用类比识别的同步方法对收集到的表达进行了验证。其中一个类比暗示婚姻是一种交易关系,被选中使用概念整合理论(CIT)进行分析。研究发现,类比在日常对话中随处可见,但它们被无意识地用于描述婚姻等抽象现象。此外,研究还发现,在罗族社区的一些婚姻中,爱情化学反应、兼容性和情感投资被放在了次要位置,伴侣们将对方视为满足自身私利的一种手段。研究结果还表明,概念心理空间作为CIT的一个信条,为把婚姻作为一个抽象概念在多洛人中进行解释提供了一个似是而非的模型。本研究的结论是,类比具有文化特异性,应通过认知语言学家的视角进行研究。
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Could marriage be a glorified transactional relationship? A cognitive blending approach to analogies of marriage in Dholuo
The last few decades have seen declining marriage rates as people prioritize other life goals over marital commitments. While the explanations for this shifting tide are multifaceted, scholarly evidence suggests that portrayal of marriage in a negative light scares many young adults from the institution. Every community equips its people with experiences, attitudes and linguistic resources to conceptualize abstract phenomena such as marriage. Against this background, this study seeks to analyze analogies of marriage in Dholuo to reveal how cultural resources and experiences influence the conceptualization of marriage. The study adopts a descriptive research design. Data for the study was collected through interviews. Forty (40) speakers of the Kisumu South Nyanza (KSN) dialect were asked to provide analogies used to describe marriage in Dholuo. A total of 66 analogies were collected. Four annotators used the synectic method of analogy identification to verify the collected expressions. One analogy which implies that marriage is a transactional relationship was selected for analysis using the Conceptual Integration Theory (CIT). The study found that analogies pervade daily conversations but they are unconsciously used to describe abstract phenomena such as marriage. Additionally, the study found that in some marriages in the Luo community, love chemistry, compatibility and emotional investment take a backseat and partners see each other as a means to satisfy their selfish interests. The findings also indicate that conceptual mental spaces as a tenet of the CIT provide a plausible model for interpreting marriage as an abstract concept in Dholuo. The study concludes that analogy is culture-specific and should be investigated through the lenses of a cognitive linguist.
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