How Metaphor Makes Attitudinal Meaning: A Semiotic Approach
Numerous studies, for example, Martin and White (2005: 67), have identified metaphor as a strategy for invoking attitude. However, how it works to make attitudinal meaning is still a less explored issue. Drawing on Peirces semiotic, especially his notion of iconicity, this paper aims to explore this problem from a semiotic perspective. According to Peirce, metaphors are one of the three types of icons (the other two are images and diagrams) and can be defined as hypoicons, which represent the representative character of a representamen by representing a parallelism in something else (2.277). Departing from this definition and also several modern metaphor theories, this paper firstly investigates the meaning-making mechanism of metaphor, in light of which metaphor is further analyzed for its linguistic manifestations and classifications, for the purpose of finding ways to identify metaphor. On the basis of the above analyses, this paper then discusses in depth the mechanisms which metaphor employs for making attitudinal meaning.
attitudinal meaning metaphor peircean semiotic
SONG Chengfang
Peking University/University of Sydney
国际会议
The 36th International Systemic Functional Congress(第36届国际系统功能语言学大会暨第十一届全国功能语言学研讨会ISFC36)
北京
英文
275-279
2009-07-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）