语法隐喻的语义分析

隐喻是一种重要的认知现象,语言中的隐喻反映了人类思维的隐喻性。隐喻是通过人类的认知和推理将一个概念域系统地、对应地映射到另一个概念域。对语法隐喻,人们有多种研究和界定方法。由韩礼德的语法隐喻观可以推出,语法隐喻是这种概念域之间的映合在句法结构上的不一致性体现。意义渗透到语法结构中是一种普遍现象,语法隐喻体现了语义和语法关系之间的转化。把认知语言学和语义学结合起来能更好地理解语法隐喻的实质。

Semantic Analysis of Grammatical Metaphor

Metaphor is a significant cognitive phenomenon,which is imbedded in human language and signifies the metaphorical quality of people's thinking.Metaphor projects systematically and correspondingly one domain of human cognition and inference to another.As for grammatical metaphor,various methods have been employed in studying it.However,according to Halliday,it is inferred that grammatical metaphor is the incongruent realization of the projection between such domains of different conceptions.It is a universal phenomenon that semantic meaning permeates into grammatical structures and grammatical metaphor reflects between of the conversion semantic and grammatical relationships.More insight can be gained in understanding the essence of grammatical metaphor when exploring it by combining cognitive linguistics and semantics.