《白象似的群山》中的隐喻映射

The Metaphor and Space Mapping in "Hills Like White Elephants"

隐喻的实质就是通过另一类事物来理解和经历某一类事物,是一种从"来源域"事物特征向"目标域"事物的映射过程。本文运用空间映射理论分析海明威的短篇小说《白象似的群山》,探讨作者如何使用隐喻来建构语篇,以及读者如何根据语境和隐喻的本体和喻体特征判断"白象"的隐喻意义,进而理解语篇的深层含义。

The nature of metaphor is to use one to experience and understand another, which is the process mapping from the source to the target. This paper is designed to analyze how the writer built the text by using metaphor and how the reader can interpret the meaning of the metaphor ＂ white elephants. ＂