文化差异对隐喻理解的影响

The influence of different cultures on metaphor understanding

隐喻不仅是一种修辞手法,更是一种认知现象。隐喻分为部分隐喻的“普遍现象”和具有文化特征的隐喻。文化因素在隐喻理解中起决定性作用。

Metaphor is not only a technology of rhetoric, but more a phenomenon of cognition. Metaphor includes two parts: the “general phenomenon” of certain part and the part with cultural characteristics. Culture plays a key role in the understanding of the second part .