从CMT到CLST的嬗变——兼议隐喻研究认知转向

The Evolution from CMT to CSLT and the Cognitive Turn of Metaphor Research

Barsalou的感知模拟器理论开创性地纳入了人际关系和文化等社会互动语境因素。根据感知模拟器理论,语言驱动的感知模拟器受认知背景、先前激活的框架和图式的共同制约。基于感知模拟器的基本假设,享誉国际的认知隐喻专家David Ritchie在一系列著作中重新审视概念隐喻并建构了语境限制模拟器理论,妥善解决了概念隐喻理论缺乏关注语境维度之不足等遗留问题。通过系统比较,可以发现语境限制模拟器理论和传统概念隐喻理论之间最明显的差异是如何看待隐喻表达族群与其潜概念隐喻的关系,这是隐喻认知研究的最新成果和前沿热点。

The basic elements of Barsalou’s perception simulator theory include social interaction contextual factors,such as human relationship and culture.According to perception simulator theory,the language-driven perceptual simulator is collaboratively conditioned by its cognitive background,previously activated framework and schema.Based on the basic assumptions of perceptual simulators,the international prestigious metaphor scholar David Ritchie in his research series has satisfactorily constructed context-limited simulators theory(CLST) to re-examine conceptual metaphor theory and solved its remaining problems,including the lack of attention to the dimension of context.Through systematic comparison,it can be found that the most obvious difference between CLST and CMT is how to deal with the relationship between metaphorical expression family and its potential conceptual metaphors,which accumulates the latest academic achievements and frontal hotspots for cognitive metaphor studies.