隐喻的文化功能

隐喻作为一种重要而普遍的语言现象和思维方式，在人类的精神生活中起着不容忽视的作用。在人类早期，人们在原始思维的支配下利用隐喻方式来命名、组构世界，使世界成为人的世界。人与世界的分离与对立是人类进步的结果，也是不可避免的结果。但人们利用隐喻不断建构事物间的关联，从而在观念上建构出一个人与自然相统一的“一体”的世界。隐喻的具象性与象征性不断诱导、促使人们思考与探索现象背后的东西，隐喻本身对现实的超越，陆为人们的思维创造提供了自由空间。隐喻不仅仅是一种“外在的雕饰”，而且是一种艺术手法甚至是艺术内容。人们从中可以获得审美快感。

On the Cultural Function of Metaphor

Metaphor as an important and popular phenomena and the way of thinking, has great role in human being's spirit life. In the early age of human being, by means of metaphor, people name and construct the world which makes the physical world as human being's world. The separation and opposition between human and nature is the unavoidable result of the development of human being. People use metaphor to build up the connection among things so as to set up an integral world on the basis of unification of the physical and human world. The features of metaphor induce people to think about and explore the back of phenomena, and the transition feature of metaphor provides free room for people's thinking creation. Metaphor is not only an outside decoration, but also an art method, even a kind of art content, from which people get aesthetic pleasure.