The Research On The Mechanisms And Functions Of Metaphor From The Angle Of Resemblance

The study of metaphor has been acknowledged, already, as a formed academic tradition in the western world. Metaphor at lest includes three aspects. First, metaphor is a rhetoric and linguistic concept and it has its special conceptional domain. The study of the mechanisms and functions of metaphor is required from the relation of comparison, substitution and interaction to the view of semeiology and goes further into the resemblance of the system of analogy and the open structure of the metaphorical semeiology. Metaphor is a linguistic concept and it should focus on the deviation and image in the domain of semantics and distinguish the mechanisms and functions in discourse and lexical semantics and guide the metaphorical application. Second, metaphor is also an important subject in literature and has different forms in the literary context, at the same time, metaphor has the function of interpretation, which is an essential part in literature. Literary metaphorical interpretation should take the influential factors into consideration,for example, sublating the over-interpretation and the metaphorical interpretation of symbolization. Third, metaphorical meaning is also the further meaning in Arts. Art metaphor relates more in the aspects of psychology and cognition and has the phronetal function.The resemblance of metaphor, which is taken as the essence of the metaphor study, spans the fields of rhetoric, semantics, semeiology, cognitive science and many other subjects. The understanding of the resemblance of metaphor has a great influence on the master of metaphor knowledge. This essay, in a brief way, describes the history and heritage procedure of metaphor, and insists an idea that the resemblance undertakes the foundation part of this study. Additionally, here on the base of an approach to resemblance, the writer differentiates among concepts of metaphor, metonymy and simile, metaphor, symbolism and synaesthesia. By means of analysis of accessible and abundant researches on the study of metaphor resemblance, which are associated with the subjects of rhetoric, semantics, cognitive science and many other subjects, this essay deepens comprehension of the different facets of metaphor study, for instance, metaphor distance and metaphor application. And such comprehension and academic result is generated from theoretic model of metaphor resemblance, combined with formed metaphor models.In this essay, the writer spares more efforts on forming the integration between theory and practice of the metaphor resemblance study, thus, new theoretical support adapted to literature is discovered, whose superiority on cognitive aspect and thoughts of metaphor, altogether, illuminate poetry and other areas of arts. Besides, the theory and model of metaphor resemblance here in the essay is applied as a new method to poetry and other literature study and analysis.