A metaphor expresses the meaning of a target message indirectly,requiring the lis-tener to derive it from the literal information.This makes metaphorical understanding non-unique and allows for a greater range of interpretations than literal expressions.Dur-ing the process of metaphorical understanding,the listener's initial understanding of the metaphor may change with the addition of new information.Unlike the normal belief revision,the updating of metaphorical information is subject to bidirectional constraints.On the one hand,the source domain information constructs a cognitive framework that highlights the salient properties and restricts the listener's direction of cognitive process-ing toward the target domain.On the other hand,the target domain,as the object of cognition,constrains the core concepts of the source domain.This paper regards the understanding of metaphor in a dynamic information environment as a complex process of belief updating with non-literal information.Based on dynamic doxastic logic,we present a corresponding formal model to more generally describe the belief updating caused by non-literal information transmission in metaphors.
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