| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 102 === Hakka mountain songs are an important part of Hakka culture. The simple lyrics contain rich emotions, wisdom of life, as well as cognition and thought, and fully show the distinguishing features of Hakka language and culture. Mountain songs often have different meaning salience and metaphors as a result of different perspectives. Therefore, this study utilizes the theory of “cognitive metaphor” to discuss the semantic concept and profound connotation of Hakka mountain song lyrics. Metaphors are a conceptual system used by human beings to express language, thought and behavior. From the perspective of metaphors, we can see, in addition to traditional rhetoric, literature and language, the era, society, cognition and thought reflected on by Hakka mountain songs. This study first uses “conceptual metaphor theory” of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson as the theoretical foundation, and divides metaphors in mountain songs into three categories – “ontological metaphors,” “orientational metaphors” and “structural metaphors.” This study then uses the “conceptual blending theory” of Fauconnier &; Turner to analyze the blending of mental space that corpora are mapped into. “Ontological metaphors” include “physical and material metaphors,” “container metaphors,” and “anthropomorphic metaphors” in mountain songs; “orientational metaphors” include “linear space orientational metaphors” and “three-dimensional space orientational metaphors”; “structural metaphors” mainly includes the structural metaphor that “love is a journey,” which commonly used in mountain songs. After analyzing the semantic concept of metaphors from the psychological aspect of linguistics, this study further explores the cultural context of these metaphors, and shows that Hakka mountain songs are not only literary representations, but also show characteristics of how the people think and the value of Hakka culture.
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