马克斯·布莱克的隐喻相互作用理论,强调主题“相关意义系统”的相互作用,拓展了隐喻意义实现的语境因素,并主张隐喻创造了相似性。纳尔逊·古德曼受布莱克理论的启发,并依照其符号理论的哲学诉求,将隐喻刻画为符号图式的转移,并内在于符号指称活动之中,且将隐喻研究拓展到非语言符号之中。
Max Black' s "Interaction theory" about metaphor which stressed the interaction of the associated implications system of the subject, expanded the contextual factors of the metaphorical meaning and contended that metaphor creates the similarity.Inspired by Max Black' s theory, Nelson Goodman characterized metaphor as transfer of symbol schemata and intrinsic to the activities of symbol reference according to his symbol theory.He also expanded the metaphor research to the realm of nonverbal symbols.