A truly pragmatic approach employs a pure linguistic context to interpret a metaphor, whereas the Relevance Theory proposed by Sperber and Wilson is more cognitive.

• 而传统的语用方法虽然引入了语境的概念，但大多是单纯的语言语境，对于人的社会文化因素在隐喻理解中的作用，涉猎甚少。