简介:Asaspeciallanguagephenomenon,metaphorispervasiveinourdailylife.Peopleusemetaphortodefineconcepts,describenaturaldisastersandexplainunfamiliarthingsorphenomenainNature.Thispaperwillapplytheabstractmetaphortheorytoeveryaspectsofnaturallifeandsociallifebydemonstratingtheexamples.
简介:Theimagismisapoeticmovementthatcameoutinthe20thcentury.Intheformerperiod,thepoetsdependlargelyonsemanticdeviationtojuxtaposeabsentandabstractimageswithreaders’familiarandconcreteimages.Inthecollisionoftheimages,thereadersmaysensethebeautyoftheimagesandthepoets’imagination."JacobsenpointsoutthatthetransitionfromtheModernismtopostModernismisatransitionfrommetaphoriclanguagetometonymiclanguage."(Brooks,2004)Inthelaterimagistpoems,thelanguagebecomesmetonymicbuttheusesofmetaphordosenotdisappearinthepoems.Thelaterimagistpoetsdependongraphologicaldeviation,usinglanguagesymbolstopresenttheimagessoastomakethereadersfeeladifferentbeauty.
简介:Novelmetaphorisdifferentfromtheconventionalmetaphor.Thedistinctionbetweennovelmetaphorandconventionalmetaphorisnotclear-cutbutinadegreeofmetaphoricity.Inthesituation,whennovelmetaphorsarewidelyacceptedandgenerallyusedindailylife,theirmetaphoricalmeaningareneglectedbypeople,themetaphoricalcharactersdecreaseandtheybecomeconventionalmetaphors.ThetentativemodelBlendingRelevanceTheory(BRT)isanintegratedframeworkofthetwotheories:ConceptualBlendingTheory(CBT)andRelevanceTheory(RT),seekingtheoptimalrelevancefromthetwoinputspaces.