隠喩は何をなすのか

What do the metaphors do/achieve in language activities?

Sugimoto Takumi

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第二部, 文化教育開発関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. II, Arts and science education

What do the metaphors do/achieve in everyday language activities? What function do the conventional metaphors have? This paper described the most fundamental function which the metaphors ("X is Y") do/achieves in everyday language activities. In many studies of the metaphor, it is assumed that the metaphors have so-called "metaphorical meanings" different from literal meaning of the expression. However, there is no evidence that support such premise. This article argued that the metaphors only mean literally. The "metaphorical meaning" is not the meaning of the expression, but evoked by the receiver who accepted the expression "X is Y" literally. Thus the most fundamental function of the metaphors is forcing the receiver to assume <X is Y> with the expression "X is Y". The difference of classification of X and Y produces the feeling which distinguishes metaphors from other expression. The conventional metaphors, which often unnoticed as metaphor, force tacitly so that the members of the society see and treat X as Y. In the society, most part of reality is told by language activities. In such activities, the metaphors offer useful ways of objectivization required for the interactive activity in the society. When he/she became to be able to use the metaphors, the receiver is accepted as a member of the society who shares the reality.

隠喩の機能

言語活動

字義通りの意味

解釈

現実

function of metaphor

language activities

literal meaning

interpretation

reality

Language [ 800 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

国立情報学研究所

[ISSN] 1346-5546

[NCID] AA11618725