English metaphorical idiom expressions are usually incredibly difficult for English learners to acquire because they are stored in long-term memory and specified with regard to their semantic and syntactic structure a...English metaphorical idiom expressions are usually incredibly difficult for English learners to acquire because they are stored in long-term memory and specified with regard to their semantic and syntactic structure as well as their pragmatic applicability. Although English idioms are hard to master, some English learners can acquire them as well as native speakers.There must be some efficient approaches in their process of acquiring. This paper tries to study whether the background information of English metaphorical idioms has crucial function or not in the process of language internalization through a series of empirical studies and interviews. It also tries to promote some strategies and suggestions on acquiring metaphorical idioms by contrasting test results from different target groups.展开更多
On the basis of the previous studies about metaphor abroad and home, I tried to research the similarities, differences, and reasons between Chinese and English metaphors. The significance of this research is to help t...On the basis of the previous studies about metaphor abroad and home, I tried to research the similarities, differences, and reasons between Chinese and English metaphors. The significance of this research is to help the people who would like to know the similarities, differences, and reasons between Chinese and English metaphors.展开更多
The thesis aims to English idioms with metaphors.English idioms should be one of the special forms in English,which is one of the most popular English language ways and obtains the clear characteristics.The research h...The thesis aims to English idioms with metaphors.English idioms should be one of the special forms in English,which is one of the most popular English language ways and obtains the clear characteristics.The research hereby should be operated for better understanding.展开更多
This paper aims to demonstrate the pervasiveness of metaphor chunks in News English and introduce effective ways of understanding themcorrectly from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.Considering the difficulty ...This paper aims to demonstrate the pervasiveness of metaphor chunks in News English and introduce effective ways of understanding themcorrectly from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.Considering the difficulty in making out the accurate meaning of metaphor chunks in News Eng-lish,some translation strategies have also been proposed in hopes that it will benefit readers in their understanding and appreciation of News English.展开更多
Love is a so abstract concept that it always be conveyed through metaphors.In order to reveal how the Chinese and English poetry sets metaphors for love,this article probes into large number of examples of love metaph...Love is a so abstract concept that it always be conveyed through metaphors.In order to reveal how the Chinese and English poetry sets metaphors for love,this article probes into large number of examples of love metaphor and concludes that love metaphors in English and Chinese poetry shares the same conceptual system due to the common natures of human being.On the other hand,the differences in thinking mode and religious value result in their different points.Love metaphors in Chinese poetry are more subtle,reserved,and restrained,which corresponds to the national characteristics of Chinese people;while those in English poetry are more bold,passionate,and romantic,which are also associated with the features of western culture.展开更多
Metaphor is a figure of speech in tradition view. In modern linguistics, conceptual metaphor can be seen as a way of thinking. Thus, conceptual metaphor is common used in English from accent time until today. It is th...Metaphor is a figure of speech in tradition view. In modern linguistics, conceptual metaphor can be seen as a way of thinking. Thus, conceptual metaphor is common used in English from accent time until today. It is the basis of human being's cognition, thinking ways, language application and behavior. It is such an important part of English that the application of conceptual metaphor is quite essential in English teaching in China. This thesis mainly focuses on the application of conceptual metaphor in English teaching on the basis of detailed introduction of conceptual metaphor theories and people's way of sentence comprehension.展开更多
The theory of Grammatical Metaphor was first put forward by Halliday-the founder of systematic-functional school, whose research, however, only limited to ideational metaphor and interpersonal metaphor. Halliday took ...The theory of Grammatical Metaphor was first put forward by Halliday-the founder of systematic-functional school, whose research, however, only limited to ideational metaphor and interpersonal metaphor. Halliday took textual metaphor with a pinch of salt. This paper will focus on four representative forms of textual metaphor, that is, metaphorical thematic structure, metaphorical information structure, metaphorical cohesion and nominalization, based on Hotel English, to elaborate its factuality and theoreticality and excavate its functions in Hotel communication.展开更多
Metaphor is a universal language skill in daily life.It is also pervasive in computer English,which is not realized by most people.However,Lakoff's conceptual metaphor theory provides us an opportunity to pay clos...Metaphor is a universal language skill in daily life.It is also pervasive in computer English,which is not realized by most people.However,Lakoff's conceptual metaphor theory provides us an opportunity to pay close attention to these metaphors in computer English and offers us a new way to explore and learn computer English.Based on the conceptual metaphor theory,this paper presents a cognitive analysis on the functions of metaphor in computer English,especially its cognitive function and economical function.展开更多
Metaphors We Live By,written by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson,and published in 1980,is known as the cognitive turn of the metaphor study.The essay puts an emphasis on some key points about conceptual metaphors and tr...Metaphors We Live By,written by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson,and published in 1980,is known as the cognitive turn of the metaphor study.The essay puts an emphasis on some key points about conceptual metaphors and tries to make a brief contrastive study of the conceptual metaphor in English and Chinese.展开更多
As a phenomenon of language, metaphor has profound cultural connotations. It is not merely a matter of language, but a mode of thought and an effective cognitive tool for human to perceive things. This paper focuses o...As a phenomenon of language, metaphor has profound cultural connotations. It is not merely a matter of language, but a mode of thought and an effective cognitive tool for human to perceive things. This paper focuses on HUMAN BEINGS ARE AMIMALS metaphor to elaborate, especially from the perspective of chicken.展开更多
With the development of cognitive linguistics,a traditional view on metaphor that metaphor is a figure of speech has been challenged.A new cognitive view has taken its place:metaphor is not just a language phenomenon,...With the development of cognitive linguistics,a traditional view on metaphor that metaphor is a figure of speech has been challenged.A new cognitive view has taken its place:metaphor is not just a language phenomenon,but a "cognitive instrument" in nature.Metaphor has played an important role in understanding computer English and transferring scientific concepts.This thesis aims at making a systematic study on computer metaphors through the conceptual metaphor theory by taking screen English of computer as linguistic materials,and showing that conceptual metaphors can efficiently help people to understand and remember computer lexicons and expressions.展开更多
Human beings and animals have been being bound together inextricably, so it is not surprising that there is many a wordand expression about animals in languages, including Chinese and English. Idiom, as one of the imp...Human beings and animals have been being bound together inextricably, so it is not surprising that there is many a wordand expression about animals in languages, including Chinese and English. Idiom, as one of the important and refined componentparts of language, is also of such kind. This paper attempts to make a contrastive study of similarities and differences between Chi-nese and English animal-metaphor idioms. It also investigates into the causes for similarities and differences between Chinese andEnglish animal-metaphor idioms from a sociolinguistic perspective.展开更多
Metaphors We Live By lieve that metaphor is not only the form of human language, but the fundamental mode of human thought and behavior. This thesiswill make further analyses of the vocabularies reflecting sexism from...Metaphors We Live By lieve that metaphor is not only the form of human language, but the fundamental mode of human thought and behavior. This thesiswill make further analyses of the vocabularies reflecting sexism from three aspects:animal metaphor, plant metaphor and food meta-phor. In addition, this paper makes a simple analysis of the causes of the phenomenon. Thereby people can have a better under-standing of the language system and the appropriate usage of language.展开更多
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 Engl...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.展开更多
As one important aspect of human experience,human emotions are expressed metaphorically in language mainly based on human embodiment.In order to further understand the essence of emotional metaphors,this paper present...As one important aspect of human experience,human emotions are expressed metaphorically in language mainly based on human embodiment.In order to further understand the essence of emotional metaphors,this paper presents a contrastive study of HAPPINESS emotion metaphors between English and Chinese,and try to find the similarities and differences between them.展开更多
As an important understanding method of human,metaphor has played a crucial role in human’s cognition of the concept and structure of things.Modern metaphorical theory stresses the way of thinking and cognitive style...As an important understanding method of human,metaphor has played a crucial role in human’s cognition of the concept and structure of things.Modern metaphorical theory stresses the way of thinking and cognitive style of language speakers and it has been paying more and more attention by foreign language teachers and learners.Its positive guiding role and the value of application has been recognized by many experts and scholars both at home and abroad.The research results show that whether in teaching English vocabulary or cultural teaching,teachers can make use of the character of metaphorical understanding to guide students to regard metaphor as an effective cognitive tool,to understand and use English vocabulary and cultural knowledge.Therefore,English language teachers should pay attention to absorbing and applying the latest achievements of metaphor research,explain in detail the rationale behind the phenomenon,and organize the scattered language phenomenon through metaphor,in order to promote English language teaching level.展开更多
English plays an essential and significant role in our life. How to study English well has become a public concern. English vocabulary is of great significance in English learning. Metaphor is not only a language phen...English plays an essential and significant role in our life. How to study English well has become a public concern. English vocabulary is of great significance in English learning. Metaphor is not only a language phenomenon but also a way of thinking and cognition. As a link between cognition and language, metaphor plays an indispensable role in English vocabulary learning. By emphasizing the effects of cognitive metaphor on English vocabulary learning, the paper aims to help English learners improve vocabulary learning strategies.展开更多
In English business news discourses, there are numerous financial words or terms which are quite difficult for readers to under-stand, especially those ones built on the basis of metaphorical mechanism. Conceptual Met...In English business news discourses, there are numerous financial words or terms which are quite difficult for readers to under-stand, especially those ones built on the basis of metaphorical mechanism. Conceptual Metaphor has a strong power to explain the cor-rect meaning of these words with their specific types of metaphors. Through the explanation of the meaning construction of the metaphori-cal words, it can be a great help for the news readers to master the accurate and deep-seated messages in the discourse. Simultaneously,it gives the reader an insight into the English culture in order to grasp the international economic trends and makes them accomplishcross-cultural communication task with ease.展开更多
Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners(MEDAL) applied conceptual metaphor theory to practical lexicogra-phy systematically for the first time, namely, setting Metaphor Box. In the wake of MEDAL, Macmillan ...Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners(MEDAL) applied conceptual metaphor theory to practical lexicogra-phy systematically for the first time, namely, setting Metaphor Box. In the wake of MEDAL, Macmillan English-Chinese Dictionary for Advanced Learners was published based on the English blueprint. Due to different experience and thinking ways between Chi-nese and English, it is not easy for users to understand and translate the metaphors boxes without the help of proper translationstrategies. As an authoritative bilingual version for learners, it provided a template of understanding and translating metaphors.Thus, studying its strategies used in translating the metaphors boxes will be helpful for learners to understand and translate meta-phors in language learning. On the basis of strategies suggested by other researchers and case analysis, three main strategies usedin translating the Metaphor Boxes in the dictionary will be proposed.展开更多
文摘English metaphorical idiom expressions are usually incredibly difficult for English learners to acquire because they are stored in long-term memory and specified with regard to their semantic and syntactic structure as well as their pragmatic applicability. Although English idioms are hard to master, some English learners can acquire them as well as native speakers.There must be some efficient approaches in their process of acquiring. This paper tries to study whether the background information of English metaphorical idioms has crucial function or not in the process of language internalization through a series of empirical studies and interviews. It also tries to promote some strategies and suggestions on acquiring metaphorical idioms by contrasting test results from different target groups.
文摘On the basis of the previous studies about metaphor abroad and home, I tried to research the similarities, differences, and reasons between Chinese and English metaphors. The significance of this research is to help the people who would like to know the similarities, differences, and reasons between Chinese and English metaphors.
文摘The thesis aims to English idioms with metaphors.English idioms should be one of the special forms in English,which is one of the most popular English language ways and obtains the clear characteristics.The research hereby should be operated for better understanding.
文摘This paper aims to demonstrate the pervasiveness of metaphor chunks in News English and introduce effective ways of understanding themcorrectly from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.Considering the difficulty in making out the accurate meaning of metaphor chunks in News Eng-lish,some translation strategies have also been proposed in hopes that it will benefit readers in their understanding and appreciation of News English.
文摘Love is a so abstract concept that it always be conveyed through metaphors.In order to reveal how the Chinese and English poetry sets metaphors for love,this article probes into large number of examples of love metaphor and concludes that love metaphors in English and Chinese poetry shares the same conceptual system due to the common natures of human being.On the other hand,the differences in thinking mode and religious value result in their different points.Love metaphors in Chinese poetry are more subtle,reserved,and restrained,which corresponds to the national characteristics of Chinese people;while those in English poetry are more bold,passionate,and romantic,which are also associated with the features of western culture.
文摘Metaphor is a figure of speech in tradition view. In modern linguistics, conceptual metaphor can be seen as a way of thinking. Thus, conceptual metaphor is common used in English from accent time until today. It is the basis of human being's cognition, thinking ways, language application and behavior. It is such an important part of English that the application of conceptual metaphor is quite essential in English teaching in China. This thesis mainly focuses on the application of conceptual metaphor in English teaching on the basis of detailed introduction of conceptual metaphor theories and people's way of sentence comprehension.
文摘The theory of Grammatical Metaphor was first put forward by Halliday-the founder of systematic-functional school, whose research, however, only limited to ideational metaphor and interpersonal metaphor. Halliday took textual metaphor with a pinch of salt. This paper will focus on four representative forms of textual metaphor, that is, metaphorical thematic structure, metaphorical information structure, metaphorical cohesion and nominalization, based on Hotel English, to elaborate its factuality and theoreticality and excavate its functions in Hotel communication.
文摘Metaphor is a universal language skill in daily life.It is also pervasive in computer English,which is not realized by most people.However,Lakoff's conceptual metaphor theory provides us an opportunity to pay close attention to these metaphors in computer English and offers us a new way to explore and learn computer English.Based on the conceptual metaphor theory,this paper presents a cognitive analysis on the functions of metaphor in computer English,especially its cognitive function and economical function.
文摘Metaphors We Live By,written by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson,and published in 1980,is known as the cognitive turn of the metaphor study.The essay puts an emphasis on some key points about conceptual metaphors and tries to make a brief contrastive study of the conceptual metaphor in English and Chinese.
文摘As a phenomenon of language, metaphor has profound cultural connotations. It is not merely a matter of language, but a mode of thought and an effective cognitive tool for human to perceive things. This paper focuses on HUMAN BEINGS ARE AMIMALS metaphor to elaborate, especially from the perspective of chicken.
文摘With the development of cognitive linguistics,a traditional view on metaphor that metaphor is a figure of speech has been challenged.A new cognitive view has taken its place:metaphor is not just a language phenomenon,but a "cognitive instrument" in nature.Metaphor has played an important role in understanding computer English and transferring scientific concepts.This thesis aims at making a systematic study on computer metaphors through the conceptual metaphor theory by taking screen English of computer as linguistic materials,and showing that conceptual metaphors can efficiently help people to understand and remember computer lexicons and expressions.
文摘Human beings and animals have been being bound together inextricably, so it is not surprising that there is many a wordand expression about animals in languages, including Chinese and English. Idiom, as one of the important and refined componentparts of language, is also of such kind. This paper attempts to make a contrastive study of similarities and differences between Chi-nese and English animal-metaphor idioms. It also investigates into the causes for similarities and differences between Chinese andEnglish animal-metaphor idioms from a sociolinguistic perspective.
文摘Metaphors We Live By lieve that metaphor is not only the form of human language, but the fundamental mode of human thought and behavior. This thesiswill make further analyses of the vocabularies reflecting sexism from three aspects:animal metaphor, plant metaphor and food meta-phor. In addition, this paper makes a simple analysis of the causes of the phenomenon. Thereby people can have a better under-standing of the language system and the appropriate usage of language.
文摘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.
文摘As one important aspect of human experience,human emotions are expressed metaphorically in language mainly based on human embodiment.In order to further understand the essence of emotional metaphors,this paper presents a contrastive study of HAPPINESS emotion metaphors between English and Chinese,and try to find the similarities and differences between them.
文摘As an important understanding method of human,metaphor has played a crucial role in human’s cognition of the concept and structure of things.Modern metaphorical theory stresses the way of thinking and cognitive style of language speakers and it has been paying more and more attention by foreign language teachers and learners.Its positive guiding role and the value of application has been recognized by many experts and scholars both at home and abroad.The research results show that whether in teaching English vocabulary or cultural teaching,teachers can make use of the character of metaphorical understanding to guide students to regard metaphor as an effective cognitive tool,to understand and use English vocabulary and cultural knowledge.Therefore,English language teachers should pay attention to absorbing and applying the latest achievements of metaphor research,explain in detail the rationale behind the phenomenon,and organize the scattered language phenomenon through metaphor,in order to promote English language teaching level.
文摘English plays an essential and significant role in our life. How to study English well has become a public concern. English vocabulary is of great significance in English learning. Metaphor is not only a language phenomenon but also a way of thinking and cognition. As a link between cognition and language, metaphor plays an indispensable role in English vocabulary learning. By emphasizing the effects of cognitive metaphor on English vocabulary learning, the paper aims to help English learners improve vocabulary learning strategies.
文摘In English business news discourses, there are numerous financial words or terms which are quite difficult for readers to under-stand, especially those ones built on the basis of metaphorical mechanism. Conceptual Metaphor has a strong power to explain the cor-rect meaning of these words with their specific types of metaphors. Through the explanation of the meaning construction of the metaphori-cal words, it can be a great help for the news readers to master the accurate and deep-seated messages in the discourse. Simultaneously,it gives the reader an insight into the English culture in order to grasp the international economic trends and makes them accomplishcross-cultural communication task with ease.
文摘Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners(MEDAL) applied conceptual metaphor theory to practical lexicogra-phy systematically for the first time, namely, setting Metaphor Box. In the wake of MEDAL, Macmillan English-Chinese Dictionary for Advanced Learners was published based on the English blueprint. Due to different experience and thinking ways between Chi-nese and English, it is not easy for users to understand and translate the metaphors boxes without the help of proper translationstrategies. As an authoritative bilingual version for learners, it provided a template of understanding and translating metaphors.Thus, studying its strategies used in translating the metaphors boxes will be helpful for learners to understand and translate meta-phors in language learning. On the basis of strategies suggested by other researchers and case analysis, three main strategies usedin translating the Metaphor Boxes in the dictionary will be proposed.
