隐喻在动物寓言中的运作机制

动物寓言是世界寓言的主体,寓言与隐喻关系密切;寓言是一种扩展式隐喻,是语篇隐喻。动物寓言中寓意产生的基本条件是故事文本本身与语境之间发生了语义冲突,产生的基础是相似性,尤其是物理基础与心理体验之间的相似性,也包括由情景相似引起的情感间的相似。在动物寓言中,寓意的产生既是一个概念域(寓言故事)中的喻体(动物)蕴涵向另一个概念域(寓意)中的本体(人)映射的结果,同时也是双重影像动态互动的结果。双重影像使寓言生动,也是寓言具有强大生命力的深层原因。

On the operational mechanism of metaphor in Animal fables

Animal fables on the whole constitute the major part of fables, which are closely related to metaphor. A Fable is an extended metaphor or contextual metaphor. Basically, the moral in a fable emerges when the text of the tale in a fable conflicts with the actual context; and usually, its birth is based on the similarity, especially the similarity between physical basis and mental experience, including emotional similarity motivated by the similar situations. In animal fables, the moral results from the mapping of the entailments of the vehicle (animal) in a conceptual domain (tale) onto the tenor (human) of another conceptual domain (moral). On the other hand, it is the result of the interaction between double images, which is the source of a living fable as well as the inner reason of a fable's vitality.