摘要
Synaesthesia, based on the common human physiological mechanism, is a linguistic and psychological phenomenon. From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is viewed as a kind of metaphor, for both domains （the source domain and the target domain） of the metaphor are human sensations. The paper explores the aesthetic mechanisms of synaesthesia, applies the conceptual metaphor theory to analyze Chinese and English synaesthetic phenomena so as to reveal the rules of cross-domain mapping.
通感基于人类共同生理机制，是一种普遍的心理和语言现象。从认知角度看，通感是一种隐喻，其源域和目的域都是人类所体验的感觉。本文探讨了通感隐喻形成的美学基础，通过运用概念隐喻理论阐释漠英通感隐喻现象，揭示通感隐喻跨感官映射规律的共性，追一步深化对通感隐喻的认识与理解。
