隐喻视角下的经济语篇构建

作为一种思维方式和认知手段,隐喻在思维和语言表达中发挥着重要的作用。经济语言高度隐喻化的特征使隐喻成为经济语篇极为重要的语言组成部分。本文从隐喻理论的角度对两则经济语篇进行分析,探讨隐喻在经济语篇中的构建功能。结果表明隐喻是一种有效的语篇策略。隐喻的系统性和连贯性赋予了经济语篇在概念层面和语义层面的连贯性。

The Construction of Economic Discourses from the Perspective of Metaphor

As the way of thinking and the means of cognition,metaphor plays a significant role in thinking and linguistic expressions.Metaphor has become the vital part of economic discourses since the language of economics is highly metaphorical.This paper analyzes two economic discourses from the perspective of the metaphor theory and explores the construction function of metaphors in economic discourses.The paper reveals that metaphor is an effective discourse strategy and that the systematicity and coherence of metaphor endow economic discourses with coherence both on the conceptual level and on the semantic level.