英文合同范本中的概念隐喻分析

The Analysis of the Ideational Metaphor in FIDIC Contract Conditions

Hallidy的隐喻概念被Martin博士继承和发展,将其分成经验型概念隐喻和逻辑隐喻。通过经验型概念隐喻,过程可以重构为事物,品质可以重构为事物,过程可以重构为事物的品质和过程的品质可以重构为事物的品质。通过逻辑隐喻,小句中的联结可以重构为过程、事物、性质和情况。这两种隐喻形式频繁出现在以FID IC合同条件为代表的机构性语篇中,不但不但能够提高语篇的客观性和信息密度,还可以充当语篇推理的重要资源。

The concept of ideational metaphor proposed by Halliday was accepted and developed by Dr. J. R. Martin who divided the metaphors into the experiential type and the logical type. By way of the first type, the process can be reconstructed as the thing, the quality as the thing, the process as the quality of the thing and the quality of the process as the quality of the thing. By way of the second type, the connections in the clauses can be reconstructed as the process, the thing, the quality and the circumstances. Both types are frequently employed in FIDIC Contract Conditions and have played a key role in enhancing the objectiveness and enlarge the informational density of the discourse.