商务英语中隐喻的识别与理解

The Identification and Understanding of Metaphors in Business English

商务英语语篇中存在大量的隐喻,这些隐喻主要表现为三种类型:结构隐喻、实体隐喻和方位隐喻。隐喻的理解包括隐喻的识别和隐喻意义的推断。隐喻可以通过语义选择优先限制中断法来识别,隐喻意义的推断需要运用会话含义理论,超越话语字面意义去建构其始源域意义。

There are abundant metaphors in business English .They are mainly in three types ,structural metaphors , ontological metaphors and orientational metaphors .The understanding of metaphors includes their identification and the de-duction of their metaphorical meanings .The identification could be realized by interruption method of semantic selection pri-ority limitation .The deduction requires the application of conversational implication theory ,constructing the source domain meaning beyond the literal meaning .