An Extensive Study of Animal Metaphor in English : Its History, Structure, and Genres

这项为期四年的研究试图广泛收集英语动物词汇的隐喻用法，并澄清这些词汇的结构性质。这两位研究人员发表了20篇关于“英语中的动物隐喻”的文章，展示了动物名称之间的许多相互交织的关系，以及它们的下义词和相关词汇在隐喻使用时的关系。在案例研究方面，他们还讨论了莎士比亚和弥尔顿中动物术语的象征和隐喻用法。基于对狗、猫、鸟和昆虫学术语的深入研究，他们的论点揭示了英语动物名称中迄今未被注意到的同义词和反义词的几个方面。

This four-year study is an attempt to extensively collect the metaphoric uses of English animal terms and to clarify the structural nature of those words. The two researchers have published 20 articles on "animal metaphor in English," presenting many intertwined relations among animal names together with their hyponyms and related words when they are metaphorically used. As for case studies, they also discuss symbolic and metaphoric uses of animal terms in Shakespeare and Milton. Based on the intensive studies of canine, feline, avian, and entomological terms, their arguments throw light on several aspects of synonymity and antonimity among English animal names hitherto unnoticed.