Sports Headlines Metaphor And Its Pragmatics Default Proposition

There are so many metaphors using in the sport news titles. The extent of readers' comprehension about the metaphors decides the understanding of sport event. The characters of the sport news title hold the natural needs of the use of metaphor. And the characters of metaphors conform to the titles and benefit the making of titles.。The two courses of making and comprehension of metaphor titles are different. And during the two courses the pragmatics proposition set effects the meaning transferring of metaphor all along, which is the set of propositions existing in the brain correspondent to the context. The two contexts are the proposition set based on the two concepts and the respective upper concept. The editor and the reader hold their own set about the context to be the set. The proposition set can be divided into three kinds according to the contexts, the locutionary proposition set, the inner-locutionary proposition set and the illocutionary proposition set. The three kinds of sets affect the making and comprehension of metaphor in many different levels and aspects and generate the meaning of metaphor directly, to some extent, the kinds of metaphor.The making course of metaphor is based on the basic structure of "A is B" and the choosing happened in every phrase. Beginning from the body as the theme, the rheme "B" was used to show the new information to express the editor's purpose. In my opinion, the base of metaphor comprehension is the concept set of "A is B". The key to comprehend the metaphor is the similarity. The thinking way of proposition set is that, the editor contract the similarity of two concepts with the wish of readers'understanding. The course of readers'comprehension to the metaphor is the happening of intersection of the two proposition set in their own brain.The vehicle contains the meaning of the metaphor, is also the set getting from the editors' searching for the max relevance and best express effects. During the course of metaphor's making, the editor looks for the max relevance cognitively and the best express effects on understanding. The readers get the meaning of metaphor by the adaption.The article consist three parts. The first one focuses on the analysis of sport news title metaphor by the theory of Steinhart's logical metaphor theory, and the kinds of metaphors, getting ready for the further analysis. The second part explains the pragmatics presupposition by a new way, and explains the sport news title metaphor in the way of character and function. The last part discusses the relation between the making, comprehension and pragmatics presupposition.