Using the framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis (Charteris‐Black 2004), this paper analyzes metaphorical production at an analog research campus—the Mars Desert Research Station. This analogy to the potential reality of human existence on Mars offers an opportunity to study language use as speakers “make sense” of their experiences in a simulated physical and social unknown. This process is key to understanding how metaphor functions to “wor(l)d‐build” by facilitating the cognitive processes that bridge human imagination and emergent reality. This research demonstrates that metaphor is not always about physical experience, but can be shaped by imagination. Subtle shifts in conceptions and expression, such as those prevalent in this study, are symptomatic of larger processes of knowing and potentially inhibiting knowledge about experience.

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Wor（l）d-Building：火星沙漠研究站的模拟和隐喻

本文使用关键隐喻分析（Charteris-Black 2004）框架，在模拟研究园区火星沙漠研究站分析了隐喻产生。与人类在火星上存在的潜在现实的类比提供了一个机会，可以研究语言的使用，使说话者在模拟的物理和社交未知环境中“理解”他们的经历。这个过程是理解隐喻如何通过促进将人类想象力和新兴现实联系起来的认知过程而“发挥作用”的关键。这项研究表明，隐喻并不总是与身体经验有关，而是可以通过想象来塑造的。概念和表达的细微变化，例如本研究中普遍存在的变化，是较大的认识过程的征兆，并且可能抑制有关经验的知识。