隐喻的成因及其理解机制

从认知语言学研究中的隐喻问题出发,论证隐喻性语言的产生是隐喻这种人类共有的认知模式和人们普遍遵守的语用经济原则使然,而非填补语言表达空白的需要使然,也非源于人们思维的不发达;在对隐喻的理解机制的语用学研究中,关联理论的阐释优于以合作原则为基础的语用学阐释。

Causes for Metaphors and Their Interpreting Mechanism

Based on the metaphor problem in cognitive linguistic research, this paper demonstrates that it is because of the metaphor, the common cognitive pattern, and pragmatic economy principle commonly followed that make metaphorical languages come into being, but not because of the need to fill up the blank of expression, neither because of the underdevelopment of human thinking. In the pragmatic study on interpreting mechanism of metaphors, interpretation with correlative theory is superior to that with pragmatics based on cooperation principle.