哲学意义上的认知语言学隐喻理论

Cognitive Linguistics' Metaphor in Philosophy

传统上隐喻被看做是在有限条件下使用的非常规语言。认知语言学的当代隐喻理论却提出 :广义的隐喻 ,是语言和思想的最基本的成分 ,构成常规理性认知活动的概念系统。由于当代隐喻理论的发现 ,西方哲学的理性传统受到质疑 ,抽象思维和形而上学不再被看做是纯粹字面义的、“无血无肉”的 ,而是隐喻性的、以身体的经验所体现的。

Traditionally metaphor was seen as the abnormal language in limited usage. The contemporary theory of metaphor in cognitive linguistics argued that metaphor, in a wider sense, is the basis of language and thought and it forms the conceptual system. According to the contemporary theory of metapho r, abstract thought and metaphysics are not literal-only, fleshless, non-metap hor and non-embodied any more, so that the rational tradition of Western philos ophy was questioned.