摘要
隐喻(metaphor)作为修辞手段,一向为文学家所钟爱,却被科学家所摒弃。历史上有不少哲学家、科学家把科学文章中的隐喻视为装饰品或文学游戏或充其量只是增添一些语言力量而加以排斥。然而,事实证明,文章,无论是科学的。
A good argument can be made for necessities for writings, whether poetic or scientific, to utilize metaphor which, as a rhetorical device, has always been cherished by literary writers but abandoned by scientists. Based on linguistic and semantic theories, this paper disusses the metaphorical roles in scientific English through analyzing pro and con attitudes towards scientific metaphor. With examples illustrating linguistic characteristics and forms of metaphor in scientific writing, the author suggests that judicious use rather than over-use of metaphor is an essential language device in science writing.
出处
《现代外语》
CSSCI
北大核心
1994年第4期41-46,61-72,共8页
Modern Foreign Languages
