Being different from the traditional one, the modern study of metaphor aims to expand from the simple study of rhetoric to a new comprehensive study including poetics, semiology, semantics, hermeneutics and science of thought.

• 摘要现代隐喻学研究不同于传统隐喻学研究，它的目的是将单一的修辞学垦拓为诗学、符号学、语义学、解释学和思维科学综合起来的一门新学科。