隐喻的功能--提供新的研究角度-英文.pdf

y n a p m o The function of metaphor* C Developing a corpus-based perspective g n i h Anatol Stefanowitsch s i University of Bremen l b u P This paper presents a corpus-based approach to investigating the function of s metaphor, specifically to the question whether the use of metaphorical n language is motivated primarily by stylistic considerations or by cognitive i principles. The paper focuses on concepts that can be expressed alternatively m by a literal or a metaphorical linguistic expression with the same structural a properties. Such expressions can be individual words (such as grasp and j understand, which can both encode the concept understand), or fixed