术语“道德概念”的详细信息

英译术语:

moral concept

汉语语境:

道德是一种抽象的概念，人们无法通过感觉器官对道德进行直接的感知和理解，常常需要借助于隐喻。隐喻的本质在于人们利用熟悉、具体的经验去构造陌生、抽象的概念。道德概念经常通过垂直、明度、洁净、香臭等物理意象图式来表征。在心理学实证研究中，人们发现了道德概念和上下、明暗、净脏、香臭等源域维度存在内隐联接，但是在每个源域维度上是否均存在道德的隐喻表征，学者们的研究还存在争议。

英语语境:

Morality, an abstract concept that cannot be directly perceived, is usually described by means of metaphor, the essence of which is to construct unfamiliar and abstract concepts by employing familiar and concrete image schemas, such as the position(up/down), brightness(light/dark), cleanness(clean/dirty), or smell (sweet/smelly) of objects. Previous empirical research has suggested that morality has implicit associations with various source domains (position, brightness...). There are, however, inconsistences in the true existences of metaphor representations of morality for each of the source domains.