Abstract One recent trend in metaphor studies is to deny the possibility that most verbal metaphors really convey metaphoric meanings via cross-domain mappings. Instead, only a small number of verbal metaphors, those presumably produced “deliberately” and “consciously,” ever alert listeners or readers to draw cross-domain inferences. Xu, Zhang, and Wu (2016. Enlarging the scope of metaphor studies. Intercultural Pragmatics 13. 439–447) describe several ways in which this “deliberate metaphor theory” may extend contemporary metaphor research. Our reply notes that this perspective is completely contradicted by cognitive linguistic and cognitive science empirical findings, and, ironically, ignores both communication and consciousness in its efforts to provide a new, improved theory of metaphor. We argue that the new alternative is a regressive attempt to take metaphor studies back to the stone ages of scholarship in which only certain verbal metaphors really reflect true metaphoric thinking.

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将隐喻研究带回石器时代：回复徐，张和吴（2016）

摘要隐喻研究的最新趋势是否认大多数言语隐喻确实通过跨域映射传达隐喻含义的可能性。取而代之的是，只有少量的言语隐喻（大概是“故意”和“有意识地”产生的）会提醒听众或读者做出跨领域推论。徐，张和吴（2016年。扩大隐喻研究的范围。跨文化语用学13。439–447）描述了这种“蓄意隐喻理论”可以扩展当代隐喻研究的几种方式。我们的答复指出，这种观点与认知语言学和认知科学的经验发现完全矛盾，具有讽刺意味的是，在试图提供一种新的，改进的隐喻理论的过程中，它忽略了交流和意识。