隐喻是一种普遍的语用现象。它既是一种修辞手段,更是一种认知现象。隐喻在语言应用中产生,其生成和解读都要依赖一定的语境,要受到语境因素的制约。语境对隐喻认知的制约表现在界定隐喻与非隐喻、选择喻体、规定或解读喻底、确定隐喻的使用等方面。 Metaphor is a universal pragmatic phenomenon. It is not only a rhetorical device, but also a cognitive phenomenon. Metaphor generated in the language application, its generation and interpretation must rely on a certain context, subject to the constraints of contextual factors. Contextual constraints on the cognitive metaphor in the performance of the definition of metaphor and non-metaphor, the choice of vehicle, the provisions or interpretation of metaphor, to determine the use of metaphor and so on.