Demetaphorizing or Metaphorizing: A Dynamically Interactive Model of Congruent and Metaphorical Modes of Realization

How language evolved from protolanguage to modern language is still a myth although some theories and hypotheses have been put forward to try to uncover it, among which Halliday proposed that much of the history of a language is a history of demetaphorizing.In order to reconsider the possible way of language evolution, it is necessary to observe language evolution in terms of both phylogenesis and ontogenesis.Such observation may be more convincing, according to which language is initially congruent and the history of a language is a history of metaphorizing more than demetaphorizing.The process of language evolution may be one in which the metaphorical mode of realization originates from the congruent one in the initial state of language, and then the congruent and the metaphorical forms develop in a dynamically interactive model.