20世纪70年代以来,隐喻研究突破修辞学的范畴,隐喻开始作为一种思维方式、认知模式进入人们的研究视野。本文将隐喻思维放到符号学的视野下进行考察,试图从语言符号能指、所指关系入手,挖掘出隐喻思维的发生机制、基本条件和特征。认为作为一种思维的隐喻是符号意义项重组的有效机制之一,有助于提高表达的效率。 Since the 1970s, metaphor research has broken through the category of rhetoric. Metaphor has begun to serve as a way of thinking and cognition into the research perspective of people. This paper examines the metaphorical thinking from the perspective of semiotics and attempts to start with the relationship between the signifier and signifier of linguistic signs to find out the mechanism, basic conditions and characteristics of metaphorical thinking. It is considered that metaphor as a kind of thinking is one of the effective mechanisms for the reorganization of symbolic meaning and helps to improve the efficiency of expression.