从认知语用学的角度分析隐喻现象

Analysis on the Phenomenon of Metaphor from the View of Pragmatic Prespective

隐喻是一种修辞,也是一种语用现象。隐喻的理解和接受就是一个听者通过共有的认知语境寻找最佳关联的明示、激活、选择、推理,最终获得隐喻会话含义的过程。此外,关联理论虽给隐喻的理解提供了新的视角,但仍存在一定的局限性。

Metaphor is a kind of rhetoric device as well as a pragmatic phenomenon. Based on the analysis, the author believes that the acceptance and perception of metaphor is a process of ostension to inference in which the hearer finally acquire the conversational meaning of metaphor by seeking the relevant ostension, activation, choice and inference of optimal shared cognitive environment. In addition, though relevance theory provides a new perspective of understanding metaphor, it has it limitations in interpreting metaphor.