论隐喻在惯用语语义形成中的作用

Functions of Metaphor in the Formation of Idioms' Semantic Meaning

惯用语是口语当中一种短小定型的语言样式,它往往超越字面意义,而获得一种比喻性的整体意义。在惯用语意义形成的过程中,隐喻作为一种认知的模式起了非常重要的作用。这种思维模式不仅帮助人们发现万事万物之间的相似点,而且激发人们创造事物之间的相似点,从而把具象概念系统和抽象概念系统,生理体验和心理体验联系起来,在惯用语的字面意和整体意之间构建了一座桥梁。

Idiom is a short language form in verbal communication. It always attains a metaphorical meaning beyond its superficial meaning. In the formation of idioms, metaphor plays a significant role. The mode of thinking not only helps people to find the similarity among things, but also stimulates people in creating similarity so as to combine concrete concept with abstract concept, and to combine physical experience with psychological experience and to construct a bridge between superficial meaning and absolute meaning.