Abstract

Since conceptual metaphor theory was put forward, the view that metaphors affect human cognition by constructing cognitive frames has been very influential. From the view of cognitive metaphor studies, the focus of metaphor formalization is no longer to describe the substitution of metaphorical meaning for literal meaning, but to consider the cognitive frames of concepts in conventional situations and the selection of information in specific contexts. Following the perspective of cognitive metaphor theory, this article constructs a logic based on situation semantics to provide a possible way to interpret the information transfer in the process of metaphor comprehension. It describes different concept domains by assigning each situation a unique theme and reflects an agent’s belief by supporting relations between situations and propositions. Then we can distinguish between different kinds of information flow in metaphor comprehension.