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The main subject of the study is the Squliq group of Atayal of Fuxing Township, Taoyuan County. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the metaphoric expression of the word“inlungan.”The first chapter of this thesis will focus on introducing the geographic background of Squliq of Fuxing Township,an over view of the Atayal language and the brief introduction of the Atayal grammar. The second chapter will discuss about the morphology and semantics of the Atayal word“inlungan.”The Squliq tribe people in Fu-Sing Township usually use the word “inlungan”to mean“heart”or“mind”. But from the corpus we found that the word“inlungan”doesn’t mean any specific or visible organ. The dialect of Atayal language of Squliq of Fuxing Township,“tucing”means the organ,“heart”. but for the Atayal“ inlungan”is just an abstractive idea. You can’t really understand it just by direct observing or contact it. So in this chapter we will make clear the different semantic idea among the words, inlungan, tucing(heart), and tunux (head). Besides by the morphology principle of Atayal, we will analyze and explain how the word“ inlungan”was composed to prove that the Atayal word “inlungan”is deriving from the word“Inglungan”(thinking). According to the corpus’ information, the writer will elaborate how the word“ inlungan”could be used to describe men’s thought, their mind traits and emotions. In the third chapter, the author will analyze the metaphoric expression of “inlungan” according to the conceptual metaphor theory of Lakoff &; Johnson in 1980. We will analyze and discuss the metaphorical relationship of the inlungan from the three types of metaphor; " General Material Metaphor ", " Special Material Metaphor "and "Orientational Metaphor". The author hope that through the research and analysis of the corpus to study the tribe people’s metaphorical expression, to understand the cultural message which was hidden behind, and through the word “inlungan” to understand the Atayal’s way of thinking. Sometimes the Atayal will use the general material concept to describe specific personality traits and characteristics, such as :sizes, weight, temperature, colors, speed, and the quantity etc…and some other special metaphoric concepts. For example, they may regard the“inlungan”as food, as fragile, as inflammable, as container, as people or other orientational metaphors concept to describe specific personality traits and character. We can also use it to describe people’s emotion, mind activities and also using it to describe people thinking activities as well. Chapter four is the conclusion. The writer will integrate and induce the summary of all the chapters of the thesis to point out the contribution and defect in it. And because of the deficiency of this thesis, it will be the direction and objective for the future research.
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