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1、LanguageandLiteraturehttp://lal.sagepub.comBetweenextendedmetaphorandallegory:isblendingenough?PeterCrispLanguageandLiterature2008;17;291DOI:10.1177/0963947008095960Theonlineversionofthisarticlecanbefoundat:http://lal.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/4/291

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3、http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.navPermissions:http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.navCitationshttp://lal.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/17/4/291Downloadedfromhttp://lal.sagepub.comatUNIVOFWATERLOOonMay18,2009BETWEENEXTENDEDMETAPHORANDALLEGORYA

4、RTICLE291Betweenextendedmetaphorandallegory:isblendingenough?PeterCrisp,TheChineseUniversityofHongKongAbstractAllegorycanbothberelatedtoanddifferentiatedfromextended,linguisticmetaphor.Fromonepointofviewitissimplyasuper-extendedmetaphor;fromanotherhoweveritin

5、volvesashiftfromaconsciouslyapprehendedmetaphoricalblendtoaconsciouslyapprehendedfictionalsituation.Understandingthenatureofthisshiftinvolvestheissueofblending.Althoughalmostvacuousinitsmostgeneralversions,ifconstruedasatheoryofspecificallyfigurativeformsofth

6、ought,blendingtheorydoeshavecontent.Thereisasyethowevernoevidencefromexperimentalpsychologyfortheoccurrenceofblending.Theonlypresentlyavailableevidenceforthisistheconscioussenseoffusionassociatedwithnew,poeticmetaphorandrelatedphenomena.InBlake’s‘APoisonTree’

7、anallegoricalfictionemergesoutofablendwhosesettingupispromptedbyanextendedmetaphor,whichitselfinturnemergesoutofaconventionalmetaphorthat,almostcertainly,doesnotinvolveblending.Theanalysisof‘APoisonTree’castsvividlightontherelationsbetweenblending,allegoryand

8、issuesofontology,truthandreference.Keywords:allegory;blending;cognition;consciousness;extendedmetaphor;ontology;phenomenology;possiblesituations;reference;truth1Extendedmetaphor,allegorya