【摘要】 本文从语言学、心理学、认知科学等方面对隐喻进行了研究。作者认为 ,传统的比较理论虽然历史悠久 ,但对隐喻现象的解释力毕竟有限 :特征匹配、突出性失衡、信息理论都只能在一定程度上揭示隐喻的本质 ,却不能捕捉到隐喻的丰富性和复杂性。而以生成语义学和语用学为理论依据的失协理论认为 ,隐喻是对语义选择规则和交际的会话准则违背的结果 ,所以 ,隐喻的理解与普通语言不同。但是 ,这种理论也不能反映隐喻的本质。交往理论虽然比较有前途 ,但尚缺乏经验研究的验证更多还原

【Abstract】 The present thesis is an attempt to study the nature of metaphors from the perspectives of linguistics,psycholinguistics,cognitive science,philosophy and pragmatics.On the basis of meticulous analysis,the author has come to the following conclusions.Traditional comparison view,in spite of its long history,has limited explanatory power:while to some extent revealing the nature of metaphor,the feature\|or attribute\|matching models,the contrast model,and the salience imbalance hypothesis can only capture part of the richness and complexities of metaphors.Nevertheless,according to the incoherence view,which is based on theories of generative semantics and pragmatics,metaphors result from breach of semantic selection rules and conversational principles.Therefore,the understanding of metaphors is different from that of non\|figurative language.However,this view cannot explain metaphors either.It seems that the interaction view is promising,but it needs to be tested with experiments.更多还原