批评隐喻分析:前沿与展望

Critical Metaphor Analysis:Frontiers and Prospects

批评隐喻分析(critical metaphor analysis,CMA)作为批评性话语分析的重要范式,拥有广阔的发展前景且日趋成熟。鉴于此,本文在简要述评CMA理论渊源和研究现状的基础上,着重围绕前沿研究展开讨论,并指明其发展前景,以期推动这一领域的纵深发展。通过文献梳理,本文发现,CMA可以追溯到修辞学、语义学、语用学、认知语言学、语料库语言学以及批评性话语分析等领域。近年来,国内外学者以政治话语为切入点,在传统隐喻识别方法的基础上不断完善,并逐步延伸至经济、教育、医疗等更广阔的研究领域。相关研究虽取得一定成果,但理论自主创新不足、语料类型及模态单一、方法简单且信度有限,对批评隐喻的历时探讨也存在一定空缺。因此有待深入探索,通过跨学科和超学科研究、多种话语资源的挖掘、三角互证的综合运用以及拉长时间跨度实现定性和定量、共时和历时研究更大程度的结合。

Critical metaphor analysis(CMA),as an important paradigm of critical discourse analysis,has enjoyed broad development prospects and become increasingly mature.In view of this,based on a brief review of the theoretical basis and research status,this paper elaborates on cutting-edge research and prospects for future development,with the ultimate goal of promoting the in-depth development of CMA.Through the review of relevant literature,it is found that CMA can be traced back to the fields of rhetoric,semantics,pragmatics,cognitive linguistics,corpus linguistics,and critical discourse analysis.In recent years,scholars at home and abroad have analyzed the metaphors of political discourse,and gradually applied CMA to economics,education,health care,and other emerging fields utilizing continuously refined research methods built on traditional metaphor identification procedures.Although some achievements have been made in relation to CMA,it is not free from problems such as insufficient theoretical innovation,limited data types and modes,simple research methods with moderate reliability,and a rarity of diachronic studies.Therefore,further exploration is needed to realize a greater degree of combination of qualitative,quantitative,synchronic and diachronic analyses through interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research,as well as comprehensive employment of multiple discourse resources,triangulation,and longer time spans for research projects.