This article explores how literary texts, in this case the novel “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, elicit metaphorical thinking as a major part of readers’ interpretive experiences. Our main argument is that metaphorical thinking does not arise only given our encounter with individual verbal metaphors, but emerges in various ways as part of our habitual forms of imaginative metaphorical understandings. Metaphorical thinking is closely linked to embodied simulation processes by which readers project themselves imaginatively into the lives of story characters. Embodied simulation processes capture readers’ rich phenomenological characteristics (e.g., immersion, absorption, transportation) of literary experience. Metaphorical thinking unfolds in hierarchical layers across different time spans during literary reading.

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JD塞林格（JD Salinger）的《麦田守望者》中的隐喻思维

本文探讨了文学文本（在本例中为JD Salinger的小说《麦田里的守望者》）如何引发隐喻思维，将其作为读者解释性体验的重要组成部分。我们的主要论点是，隐喻思维不仅是由于我们遇到了单个的言语隐喻而产生的，而且还以各种方式出现，这是我们想象性隐喻理解的惯常形式的一部分。隐喻思维与具体化的模拟过程紧密相连，通过这种过程，读者可以将自己富有想象力地投射到故事人物的生活中。具体的模拟过程可以捕获读者丰富的文学经验现象学特征（例如，沉浸感，吸收力，传递力）。隐喻思维在文学阅读过程中跨越不同的时间跨层次层次展开。