隐喻研究由来已久,历史上对隐喻比较系统的研究最早可以追溯到亚里士多德时代。亚里士多德在其经典名著《诗学》(Poetics)和《修辞学》(Rhetoric)中多次提到了隐喻的构成方式和修辞功能。束定芳指出隐喻“作为人类思维组织的一种工具看待和认识事物的一个视角它就不可否认是一种认知现象”。胡壮麟指出:“隐喻现象首先是思维中产生了隐喻的概念,这就涉及到隐喻与认知的关系。”由此可见人们对隐喻的理论认识经过了从狭义到广义、从表 Metaphor has been studied for a long time. The earliest studies of metaphor in history can be traced back to the Aristotelian era. Aristotle mentioned many times the compositional and rhetorical functions of metaphors in his classic Poetics and Rhetoric. Shu Dingfang pointed out that metaphor “It is undeniable that it is a cognitive phenomenon ” as a tool of human thinking organization to treat and recognize things. Hu Zhuanglin pointed out: “Metaphor is the first concept of metaphor in thinking, which involves the relationship between metaphor and cognition.” Thus, people’s understanding of metaphor theory from the narrow to the broad sense, from the table