An Annotation of the Cognitive System of Metaphor from the Angle of Pragmatics

作者:Zhang Suyang*; Zhang Ju
来源:4th Northeast Asia International Symposium on Language, Literature and Translation, 2015-07-24 to 2015-07-26.

摘要

Now in China, countless metaphorical research findings come out every year. However, making a general survey, people will find that domestic research of metaphor still lacks systematic direction in many respect, since most findings are modeled on some popular theories, though there are still many outstanding cases. For such a reason, we may say that an elementary research system has not yet been established. The authors think that metaphorical research and its future trends include quite a number of contents: how to classify metaphor scientifically; how to cognize the 'life feature' of metaphor; how to deal from the view of pragmatics with the interactive relationships between metaphor and some other figures of speech; and how to conduct interdisciplinary research of metaphor. This is the essential cognitive system of metaphor.