文体语用学视角下不可能的文化建构--以Anak Bajang Mengayun Bulan为例

The present study is concerned with pragmatic and stylistic functions of metaphor in Anak Bajang Mengayun Bulan (ABMB). The study focuses on three main research questions: the central metaphor as a pragmatic action, the stylistic choices and their function in guiding the inferential interpretation of impossibility, and the role of cultural, social, and societal contexts in the formation of metaphorical meaning and ideological implications. This study uses a hybrid framework of conceptual metaphor theory and stylistic pragmatics to analyze five major metaphors: (1) gadung tendrils as relational