论文学隐喻产生的根源

On the Root of the Generation of Literary Metaphors

文学作品中存在着大量的隐喻,语言学、哲学等领域一直把隐喻作为修辞功能进行研究,历时几千年,尤以希腊哲学家亚里士多德为代表;到上世纪三十年代才开始关注其认知功能,文章利用认知学和神经心理学的研究成果,通过分析身体隐喻和非身体隐喻两大认知隐喻的起源和发展,探讨了文学隐喻产生的根源是人类本身所具有的隐喻性生物特性,这为文学隐喻的研究提供了新的角度。

There exist numerous metaphors in literary works. Linguists and philosophers, represented by Greek philosopher Aristotle in particular, have studied metaphors as a kind of rhetorical device for thousands of years. This paper, based on findings of metaphor study in the fields of linguistics, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and the analysis of origin and development of the two major kinds of metaphor--body metaphor and non-body metaphor, explains that the root of the generation of literary metaphors lies in the human＇s unique metaphorical biological property, which provides a new angle for literary metaphoric research.