语法隐喻理论的发展和问题

The Development and Problems in Grammatical Metaphor Theory

自1976年Halliday首次提出"语法隐喻"概念以来,语法隐喻成为语言学界的研究热点。但是,现有的研究没有很好地解决语法隐喻的发展、分类、产生机制及其与认知语言学中的概念隐喻之间的关系等问题。语法隐喻的发展实际上经历了三个阶段,其分类应当采用语言功能和语言层次结合的综合模式。语法隐喻的产生机制是小句表征方式之间或内部的映射和整合。在一定程度上语法隐喻和认知语言学中的概念隐喻是相同的语言现象,它们之间有很多相通之处。

Since M. A. K. Halliday put forward the concept of grammatical metaphor in 1976, it has become a heated topic in the field of linguistics. The previous studies, however, still have not found satisfactory answers to problems such as the development, the classification, the generating mechanism of grammatical metaphor and its relationship with conceptual metaphor in cognitive linguistics. The present study argues that the development of grammatical metaphor involves three stages. The classification of grammatical metaphor should take into consideration both the functions and the strata of language.The generating mechanism of grammatical metaphori is mapping and blending between or within representational mode（s） in a clause. Grammatical metaphor and conceptual metaphor are to some extent the same linguistic phenomenon, sharing with each other a lot of features.