从认知角度看隐喻的创造性及其评价原则

The Creativity of Metaphor and its Evaluating Principles—A Cognitive Perspective

隐喻的构建和理解过程是创造力实施的典范。隐喻的创造本质就是在两个或两个以上已知的概念中发现新的关系,或者在一个已知的概念中挖掘出人们意想不到的内涵,从而开拓新的认知空间。本文从认知角度分析了隐喻的创造性,并建立了评价隐喻中创造性因素含量的三个原则:语义范畴跨度、独创性和可接受性。

The process of constructing and understanding metaphor is a good example as for creativity. The creative nature of metaphor is to find new relationship in two or more existing concepts or cultivates new meaning in an existing concept so as to exploit new mental space. The creativity of metaphor is analyzed from the cognitive view in this paper and three principles including semantic category span, originality and acceptability are established to evaluate creative factors.