试论汉语比喻的心理基础及文化观照

A Trial Comment on Psychological Basis and Cultural Philosophy of Chinese Figure of Speech

比喻是对感知过程中产生的某种联想进行描述的一种语言艺术手法,"联想"是比喻的心理基础。比喻的结构构成及其功能实现,都需建立在类比联想的基础之上。这种联想的产生会受到人们所生活的文化背景的影响,因此比喻也是一种文化现象。从广阔的文化背景中观察分析汉语中的比喻,能更好地了解其文化特征。

Figure of speech is the linguistic artistic method resulting from a kind of association occurring in the recognition process of depiction.The association is the psychological basis of figure of speech.The establishment of the structure of figure of speech and the realization of the function should be on the basis of analogical association.The appearance of the association is influenced by cultural context that people are in,thus figure of speech is also a cultural phenomenon.We can better know its cultural features,if we can observe and analyze Chinese figure of speech from the angle of the broad cultural context.