On The Level Of Metaphor

Human beings come to know the world by way of languages and the essence of metaphor is a cognitive way towards world. Languages are the products of definition, which are realized by analysis and synthesis. However, there must be the elements that do not conform to the process of synthesis. Therefore metaphor appeared, which is also a kind of definition of course. As a result there must be differences during this process that embodies the degrees of metaphor. Analying these degrees can not only help people explain the different degrees of expressions during communication but also make us undersand the thinking modes and expressive manners of human beings profoundly. Relevance theory is the theory about communicaions and it gives a clear explanation on the existence and essence of the implicature message. While metaphor is also a kind of weak implicature. Analysing the degrees of metaphor on the basis of relevance theory shows that the deeper the degree of metaphor is, the smaller the relevance is and vice vesra.