隐喻不仅是语言修辞的手段,同时也是人类的基本思维方式,是人们利用已知的概念去理解另一个新概念的认知工具。通过语言表达体现的隐喻为言语隐喻;不借助语言表现传达的隐喻为非言语隐喻。本文从二者的形成及识解的角度进行分析比较,找出二者的相似点和不同点。 Metaphor is not only the means of language rhetoric, but also the basic way of thinking of mankind. It is a cognitive tool that people use known concepts to understand another new concept. The metaphor embodied by language expression is speech metaphor; the metaphor conveyed without language expression is non-verbal metaphor. This article analyzes and compares the formation and understanding of the two, and finds out the similarities and differences between the two.