语料库方法与隐喻理论相结合近年来已发展成为隐喻研究领域中的主流趋势。该方法为隐喻研究提供了实证性理据的支撑，拓宽了隐喻研究的范围，在一定程度上克服了早期隐喻研究在方法论层面的诸多缺陷与不足。然而这一研究范式在语料收集与识别等方面依然受到学界的质疑与挑战，具体表现在语料的检索方法、语料的代表性与平衡性及语料的间接性方面的问题。文章对这些问题进行了系统梳理与分析，并对未来的语料库隐喻研究提出了相关建议。

The combination of corpus methodology and metaphor theory has developed into a mainstream trend in metaphor studies in recent years. The adoption of this methodology puts metaphor research on a sounder empirical footing, broadens the scope of metaphor research and to some extent addresses a number of methodological issues of some early metaphor studies. This research paradigm, however, still receives a range of doubts and challenges in the areas of data collection and identification, specifically with respect to data search, representativeness, balance and indirectness. This paper systematically categorizes and analyzes these issues and puts forward several relevant recommendations for future research.