皮尔斯符号学视角下的隐喻及其意义

隐喻是目前学术界广泛关注的研究话题。从本质上来说,隐喻是一种象似性程度比较低的亚象似符。它借助于自己的特征指示事物,即通过描述其他事物中的对应关系来体现事物的表象特征。隐喻是一种普遍现象,具有对应性、互动性和多模态性等认知特征。隐喻意义的理解是在人主观能动的基础上,通过本体和喻体的解释物之间的互动产生新的解释物而实现的。研究表明皮尔斯符号学理论对隐喻的认知意义理论构建有着指导意义。

Metaphor and Its Significance from Peircean Semiotic Perspective

Metaphor is a subject which has attracted wide attention. This paper discusses the semiotic nature, cognitive features and understanding process of metaphor from a Peircean semiotic perspective. It shows that metaphor is a hypoicon that describes a parallelism in something else, with comparatively low degree of iconicity. As a common language phenomenon, it has such cognitive features as similarity, interactivity and multimodality. The understanding of metaphor is realized on the base of subjective interpretation, with a new interpretant created through the interaction between the interpretants of the vehicle and the tenor. Result indicates that Peircean semiotic theory is of great significance in the construction of a cognitive-semantic theory of metaphor.