Who is Afraid of Metaphors
Who is Afraid of Metaphors
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谁害怕隐喻
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1995
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Sabine Maasen
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Sabine Maasen
从这句话来判断，查尔斯·达尔文当然不怕比喻，似乎确信没有人应该害怕。在这种天真方法的背景下，最近涌现的关于隐喻概念的出版物似乎相当神秘。事实上，看一看诺本和其他人在1985年和1990年编纂的隐喻书目，就能第一次洞察诺本所说的自20世纪70年代以来知识分子的“隐喻狂热”。2虽然这两本书目都不被认为是详尽的，但它们已经包含了6000多个词条；仅针对初学者的推荐就超过了200个词条。不仅出版物的数量令人印象深刻，而且它们涵盖的学科和研究领域的多样性也令人印象深刻：相关研究可以在语言学、符号学、修辞学、文学以及哲学、心理学、社会学、历史学、政治学、医学或人工智能中找到。
Judging from this quote, Charles Darwin certainly was not afraid of metaphors and seemed to be convinced that no one should be. Against the background of such an innocent approach the recent flood of publications on the notion of metaphor appears to be rather mysterious. Indeed, a look at the bibliographies of metaphors compiled by Noppen and others in 1985 and 1990 provides a first insight into what Noppen calls the “metaphormania” of the intellectuals since the 1970s.2 Although both bibliographies are not considered exhaustive, they already contain more than 6,000 entries; the recommendations for beginners alone amount to more than 200 entries. Not only is the sheer amount of publications impressive but so is the variety of disciplines and research areas covered by them: pertinent studies are to be found in linguistics, semiotics, rhetoric, literature, as well as in philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, political sciences, medicine, or artificial intelligence.