讨论死亡的话语往往带有悲伤或恐怖的色彩,但电影《寻梦环游记》以死亡为主题,却吸引了包括儿童在内的广大观众,为死亡教育提供了优秀素材。电影通过巧妙运用一系列概念隐喻来精心构建电影情节与对话,从而让电影的情节脉络和人物语言更具深度与复杂性。在这部电影中,理解那些隐喻性的话语是把握电影整体意义的核心要点与关键所在。本文以认知语言学中的概念隐喻理论为框架,深入分析电影《寻梦环游记》中死亡与记忆话语的隐喻,揭示隐喻如何增强电影的情感深度与主题表达,探讨其背后复杂的情感和哲学内涵,为观众更好地理解电影主题提供认知依据。Discussions about death usually carry a sad or terrifying tone. However, the movie Coco, with death as its theme, has attracted a wide audience including children and provided excellent material for death education. The movie carefully constructs its plot and dialogues by skillfully using a series of conceptual metaphors, thus making the plotline and characters’ language in the movie more profound and complex. In this movie, understanding those metaphorical expressions is the core and key point to grasping the overall meaning of the movie. Taking the conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics as a framework, this paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the metaphors in the discourses about death and memory in the movie Coco, reveals how metaphors enhance the emotional depth and thematic expression of the movie, and explores the complex emotional and philosophical connotations behind them, so as to provide a cognitive basis for the audience to better understand the theme of the movie.
