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摘要：本研究通过对"隐喻是否具有确定意义"和"隐喻意义是否可被非隐喻性语言所充分描写"问题的讨论;认为特定语境中的隐喻具有确定意义(即说话者的意图意义);且该意义可被非隐喻性语言(即自然语义元语言)所充分描写。因此;隐喻意义具有可释义性。对Goddard隐喻释义模式的考察表明;尽管NSM理论可作为释义隐喻内容的描写工具和释义方法;但该模式并不充分。针对该模式的不足;本研究考察了其它几个释义模式;并提出了改进建议。

The paper explores the problems of whether a metaphor has a definite meaning and whether this meaning can be fully described by non-metaphorical language.The authors point out that a metaphorical usage of language does have a specific meaning(speaker’s intended meaning) which can be fully described by a non-metaphorical language(natural semantic metalanguage),in other words,a metaphor’s meaning can be paraphrasable.The paper also studies Goddard’s metaphor paraphrasing model and concludes that although Natural Semantic Metalanguage Theory provides a good describing tool and a new approach for paraphrasing metaphor’s content,the model still has room for improvement.