Metaphor, ignorance and the sentiment of (ir)rationality
Metaphor, ignorance and the sentiment of (ir)rationality
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10.1007/s11229-019-02489-y
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发表时间：
2019-11-28
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1.5
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Ervas, Francesca
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作者：
Ervas, Francesca
隐喻被认为是一种认知过程，它独立于语言和视觉模式，通过一个未知的概念域来理解另一个已知的概念域。相反，隐喻可以被看作是一个认知过程，依赖于模式，通过无知导致真正的新知识。首先，我认为，有两个主要意义上的无知的赌注，当我们理解一个隐喻：（1）我们忽略了已知域的一些现有的属性，在这个意义上，我们忽视或忽视他们;（2）我们忽略了一些“不存在”的属性的已知域的意义上，他们不是一个信息属于已知域，但出现在隐喻的解释。其次，我认为隐喻是一种推理手段，引导口译员沿着一条推理路径得出结论，该结论将源语的某些属性归因于目标语。在这条路径中，解释器可能（1）（重新）发现已知域中被忽略的现有属性和/或（2）恢复“不存在”的属性，推断或想象丢失的信息。最后，我认为，特别是在视觉隐喻，这一过程是由一个“情感（IR）理性”，跟踪现有的熟悉的概念化的对象和/或行动和（部分）恢复被忽视的属性中断。
Metaphor has been considered as a cognitive process, independent of the verbal versus visual mode, through which an unknown conceptual domain is understood in terms of another known conceptual domain. Metaphor might instead be viewed as a cognitive process, dependent on the mode, which leads to genuinely new knowledge via ignorance. First, I argue that there are two main senses of ignorance at stake when we understand a metaphor: (1) we ignore some existing properties of the known domain in the sense that we disregard or neglect them; (2) we ignore some "non-existing" properties of the known domain in the sense that they are not a piece of information belonging to the known domain, but emerge in metaphor interpretation. Secondly, I consider a metaphor as a reasoning device, guiding the interpreters along a path of inferences to a conclusion, which attributes to the target some properties of the source. In this path, interpreters might (1) (re)discover the ignored existing properties of the known domain and/or (2) recover the "non-existing" properties, inferring or imagining the missing piece of information. Finally, I argue that, especially in visual metaphors, this process is guided by a "sentiment of (ir)rationality", tracking a disruption of existing familiar conceptualisations of objects and/or actions and a (partial) recovery of ignored properties.