Viewing on similarities in metaphors in cross-cultural communication from the perspective of cognition

Modern cognitive linguistics claims that metaphor should not be studied simply as a rhetorical device of language, but be associated with mankind＇s cognitive process, because it reflects the relationship between language and thought and cognition. Owing to this common cognitive basis, metaphors of different languages and cultures have some similarities. The specific examples of metaphors, both in English and Chinese, will be compared to find out their similarities, thus providing the evidence for the cognitive basis of metaphors.

An Analysis of Love Metaphor LOVE IS A JOURNEY from the Perspective of Cognition

The working mechanism and experiential basis of love metaphor are deeply elaborated, and on the base of it, an analysis of love metaphor LOVE IS A JOURNEY from the perspective of cognition is carried out, which further illustrates the contemporary conceptual metaphor theory.

A Cognitive Study of Metaphorical Uses of HEAD,HAND and HEART in English and Chinese

This thesis,under the framework of cognitive linguistics and by applying Lakoff and Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory,is undertaken to make a comparison of HEAD,HEART and HAND between English and Chinese and study the similarities as well as differences and the causes for this.The SPSS and Chi-square Test are used to illustrate the conclusions.

Cognitive View on Metaphor and Polysemy Learning

Language is a product of human cognition.It is of great importance and necessity to study the role of metaphor in foreign language learning and teaching.The paper is intended as a trial to develop a metaphorical cognitive approach to aid the learner of English as a foreign language,especially in polysemy learning since it has been a big problem in foreign language learning area.Metaphor plays a positive role and produces better results than the traditional approach in vocabulary learning.The metaphor approach is a powerful strategy in vocabulary comprehension,retention,and production.Teachers and researchers must shoulder the responsibility to carry out close examinations of linguistic metaphors instantiating the underlying conceptual metaphors by analyzing and establishing corpora to better established metaphor systems.

A Cognitive Comparative Analysis of UP-DOWN Metaphorical Extension in Chinese and English

This paper aims at making some research on spatial metaphor from cognitive angle.Spatial metaphor is a basic tool which can make us more familiar with our world,and lots of abstract concepts are based on it.Take "UP-DOWN" for example,this paper will mainly discuss the symmetry and dissymmetry of its extension in Chinese and English.

Book Review: Metaphor: Embodied Cognition and Discourse Edited by Beate Hampe Cambridge University Press (2017) UK xii+369 pp. ISBN 9781108187480

The book under review presents a comprehensive investigation into Metaphor theories from perspectives of embodied cognition and discourse.After sketching dimensions and dynamics of contemporary metaphor theories in the first part,it presents and evaluates metaphor in cognition by analyzing sources and target of the primary metaphor theory,the hierarchical structure of mental metaphors,metaphorical directionality and body schema in metaphorical cognition.Investigations of sign systems,modalities,contextualized discourse interaction patterns,embodied metonymy are included in the third part.And metaphor in discourse in detailed research with multiple related topics is in the fourth part.The embodied and discourse views of metaphor are highlighted in the epilogue,and it points out that one’s preferred level of analysis argues against the relevance of other perspectives on metaphor performance by using different methods.

The Multidimensional Description and Investigation of New Color Terms:A Metaphorical Cognitive Approach

This article studies the new color terms in Chinese.It first classifies the color terms from four linguistic aspects:pronunciation,grammar,semantics,linguistic context and the theory of "Four Worlds," namel,language,physics,culture,and psychology.It then summarizes all the characteristics of the new color terms.The study takes questionnaires as supplementary data,explores and proves the interactive relationship between metaphorical expression and cognitive psychology of new color words.The life span of such new color terms is also discussed.

The Application of Semantic Cognitive Mechanism of English Idioms in Idiom Teaching

This article takes the perspective of cognitive linguistics and applies the semantic cognitive mechanism of English idioms to analyze the motivation between the generation and meaning of idioms.It explores the teaching of English idioms based on motivation analysis and proposes several suggestions and strategies for idiom teaching,hoping to benefit English idiom teaching.

Space-Time Cognition Contrast between English and Chinese Reflected Through Plant Metaphor Translation

This paper intends to demonstrate the differences in space-time cognition by contrasting the English translations of Chinese PLANT metaphors composed by English and Chinese translators.The materials used for analysis are two English versions of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Mansion translated by David Hawks and Yang Xianyi.The paper hypothesizes that Chinese is more space-oriented in plant conceptualization,while English is more time-oriented.We analyzed the cognitive reasons behind different translation strategies adopted for the same PLANT metaphor and verified the deduction from example analysis in the corpus.The typical PLANT metaphor analyzed in the research is the“root”metaphor.The results indicate that most Chinese“root”metaphors are“double-imaged”metonymic metaphors,which rely on the hierarchical correlation between plant components and the accumulation of spacial characteristics through multiple metonymies embedded in metaphorical projection.On the contrary,the conceptualization of“root”and“plant”in English pay more attention to the dynamic growth of the plant rather than the spacial relations between different parts.

A Study on the Metaphorical Translation of Pound’s Book of Songs from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

The Book of Songs is the first collection of Poems in China,which is a very important milestone in the history of Chinese literature.There are abundant metaphorical expressions in The Book of Songs,providing valuable resources for linguistics,rhetoric and literature research.This study selects the most representative metaphors of women and marriage in The Book of Songs as the research object.Guided by Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory,this study explores the metaphorical translation in Pound’s Book of Songs from the perspective of cognitive effect.It is found that Pound mainly adopts the translation strategies of vehicle equivalence,vehicle conversion and metaphor to simile in the process of translating female metaphors and marriage metaphors in The Book of Songs.

A Comparison of Love Metaphors in Chinese and English from the Perspective of Cognition

Metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by saying that A is B or using words as"as"or"like".Love is human beings’eternal theme.Studying love metaphors in both English and Chinese language from the perspective of cognition can help people understand the working mechanism of love metaphors better.

Interaction Theory of Metaphor and Interactionist Approach to Cognition

Metaphorical cognition embodies the the general cognitive process,while the interaction theory of metaphor renders the cognitive role of metaphor.In perspective of the working mechanisms,the interaction theory and the interactionist approach to cognition can be examined as a whole.Following this,by reviewing and assimilating metaphorical cognition into a general cognitive process,the paradox in metaphorical cognitive studies can be tentatively clarified.

Metaphor, Essence of Bilingual Cognition

Metaphor is pervasive in every aspects of human life.However,metaphor is not only rhetorical device,also the part of cognition as perceptual and conceptualizing means for perceiving the surrounding environment which is regarded as the"bridge"for cross-culture.Metaphor as the essence of bilingua cognition is further elaborated from cross-culture metaphor’s nature,fea tures and the significance of understanding.

A Cognitive Study of Word-formation of Chinese New Metaphorical Compounds

A great deal of new words are emerging and coming into vogue.Most of the previous studies on Chinese new words focused on their classification,form and meaning,as well as the social motivations.This thesis chooses to study the concept metaphor of Chinese new metaphorical compounds from the cognitive perspective based on 396 new words in 2010 and aims to classify the new metaphorical words in a new way and pay attention to the analysis of word formation of new metaphorical compounds.Besides,this paper attempts to explore the understanding process of metaphorical new words.

Cognitive Metaphor for English-major Vocabulary and Reading Teaching

This paper makes an analysis of the cognitive nature of metaphor, expounds the view that metaphor is the necessity of cognitive process of vocabulary and reading teaching, especially for the English major. By employing some typical examples from the English-major textbooks, it advances how to train and raise specific teaching ways by utilizing metaphorical thinking.

The Comparative Study of Metaphors -- From Cognitive and Systemic-Functional Perspectives

Metaphors have different expressions in cognitive and systematic-functional linguistics, which are conceptual metaphors and ideational metaphors. Conceptual metaphors belong to traditional vocabulary metaphors, and ideational grammatical metaphors are pointed out by Halliday--the main representative of systemic-functional theory. This paper elaborates on the specific grammatical feature of EST （English for Science and Technology） text--＂nominalization of processes＂ to reveal the source of ideational metaphors. From the analysis of some examples, it is found that nominalization as a grammatical metaphor expresses the transference between process types, so it reveals the essence of ideational grammatical metaphors. Meanwhile, the comparison made between grammatical metaphors and vocabulary metaphors reflects the similarities between conceptual metaphors and ideational metaphors. In this way, this paper comes to the conclusion that the combination of the study methods of metaphors from both cognitive and systemic-functional perspectives is the best way to uncover the basic characteristic of human thinking.

On Associative Meanings of Color-Related English Words from the Perspective of Cognitive Metaphor

As an important metaphor, metaphor of color-related English words regards color domain as source domain, and maps the color domain to non-colored abstract domain. This enables us to understand, think and discuss color-related concept. This paper studies the basic color-related English words through cognitive metaphor. The process of exploring the associative meanings of the color-related English words is in nature to understand the cultural connotation of color-related English words by means of cognitive metaphor under different cultural backgrounds.

A Contemporary Cognitive Analysis of Metaphor

Basing itself on the cognitive theory of metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson,this paper elaborates the important views that make this theory of metaphor unique,namely,the definition of metaphor as a mapping across conceptual domains,the distinction drawn between conceptual metaphors(or metaphorical concepts) and linguistic metaphors(or metaphorical expressions),the classification and features of conceptual metaphor and the experiential basis of conceptual metaphor as distinguished from both subjectivism and objectivism.

A Comparative Study on Metaphor,Metonymy and Synecdoche:A Cognitive Perspective

The traditional approach studies metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche as individual linguistic expressions or rhetoric devices, which seems a little difficult to distinguish them from each other clearly. The cognitive linguistic view provides new perspectives and proofs for the study of them. According to cognitive linguists, they are a common cognitive phenomenon of human beings, far from being a mere matter of ornament to language. The article aims at pointing out the differences among them from a cognitive perspective. The comparison of them from a cognitive linguistic view can help the learners to master them more easily.