中国古代隐喻研究述论

中国古代的隐喻研究开始早、成果丰而具有鲜明的民族特色和文化品格:大量实例充分证明中国传统文化在隐喻言说上更加侧重“隐”,强调“暗示”;早在先秦时期中国古人就已经对隐喻的概念、原理、分类、功能、运行机制等进行了深入探索,提出了一系列富有价值的隐喻理论;中国古代的隐喻理论大致经历了一个由自发到自觉、由零散到系统的发展过程。

A Commentary on the Metaphor Research of Chinese Ancient Times

Chinese ancient metaphor research not only begins early,has abundant achievement but also possesses extremely distinctive national features and culture characters.This can be displayed in the following three respects specifically: First of all,a large number of embodiment of existences fully prove Chinese traditional culture lays particular emphasis on "latent" and "hinting" aspect in metaphor speech.Secondly,in the pre-Qin period,the Chinese ancient furthered investigate on the issue that already to numerous theories such as the concept,principle,classification,function,operating mechanism of the metaphor,have put forward a series of metaphor theories rich in value.Finally,Chinese ancient metaphor theory goes through a development process from spontaneousness to consciousness,from fragment to system.