Adopting Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory as theoretical framework and president Obama's State of the Union Address in 2011 as research corpus,the analysis is carried out from two perspectives...Adopting Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory as theoretical framework and president Obama's State of the Union Address in 2011 as research corpus,the analysis is carried out from two perspectives to probe into the coherent function of metaphor:one is coherence constructed by a single conceptual metaphor,the other is coherence constructed by more than one conceptual metaphor.展开更多
Based upon Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conventional metaphor,this paper takes some basketball jargons as a case for analysis from the cognitive perspective.The analysis verifies the indispensable role that meta...Based upon Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conventional metaphor,this paper takes some basketball jargons as a case for analysis from the cognitive perspective.The analysis verifies the indispensable role that metaphor as an important cogni tive instrument plays in people's interpreting and understanding the target domain by carrying over concepts from the source domain.展开更多
In point of cognitive view,metaphor is not only an ornamental devices used in rhetorical style,but also a kind of powerful cogni-tive tools for our conceptualization of the world and a thinking way of humanity.Human b...In point of cognitive view,metaphor is not only an ornamental devices used in rhetorical style,but also a kind of powerful cogni-tive tools for our conceptualization of the world and a thinking way of humanity.Human beings' cognition rule determines that humanbody and organs are the basis of human experience.People know the objective world through the metaphorical cognition of human bodyinitially,and the human-body metaphor is the most general way of thinking for the primitive people.Head is considered an importantpart of human body and head behaves abundant metaphor properties.Based on the English and Chinese corpus,this paper has made acontrastive study on the metaphoric features of expressions involving the Chinese"Tou"and English"Head",throughing light on similar-ities and differences in metaphorical construction and operation mechanism.展开更多
In classical theories of language,metaphor is viewed as a linguistic phenomenon.In the new theoretical framework of metaphor studies,in everyday conventional language conceptual metaphor has functions of structuring c...In classical theories of language,metaphor is viewed as a linguistic phenomenon.In the new theoretical framework of metaphor studies,in everyday conventional language conceptual metaphor has functions of structuring conceptual system,conceptualizing abstract concepts in terms of the comprehensible ones and providing a new understanding of our experience.展开更多
Harry Potter series, as well-known children's literature, possess plenty of invented words by their author, J.K. Rowling. While reading, people yet have no difficulty in understanding those words by means of conce...Harry Potter series, as well-known children's literature, possess plenty of invented words by their author, J.K. Rowling. While reading, people yet have no difficulty in understanding those words by means of conceptual metaphor and metonymy.This paper selected one such kind of words,"Slytherin", from the books and analyzed the mapping process of the formation of its concept. First of all, its source word"slithering"reminds people of snake, whose features including coldness, mystery and implied death has been mapped into the concept of"Slytherin". Also the features of flag colors(green and silver), and persons in Slytherin all contribute to the formation of its concept. Finally two practical examples will be analyzed.展开更多
文摘Adopting Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory as theoretical framework and president Obama's State of the Union Address in 2011 as research corpus,the analysis is carried out from two perspectives to probe into the coherent function of metaphor:one is coherence constructed by a single conceptual metaphor,the other is coherence constructed by more than one conceptual metaphor.
文摘Based upon Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conventional metaphor,this paper takes some basketball jargons as a case for analysis from the cognitive perspective.The analysis verifies the indispensable role that metaphor as an important cogni tive instrument plays in people's interpreting and understanding the target domain by carrying over concepts from the source domain.
文摘In point of cognitive view,metaphor is not only an ornamental devices used in rhetorical style,but also a kind of powerful cogni-tive tools for our conceptualization of the world and a thinking way of humanity.Human beings' cognition rule determines that humanbody and organs are the basis of human experience.People know the objective world through the metaphorical cognition of human bodyinitially,and the human-body metaphor is the most general way of thinking for the primitive people.Head is considered an importantpart of human body and head behaves abundant metaphor properties.Based on the English and Chinese corpus,this paper has made acontrastive study on the metaphoric features of expressions involving the Chinese"Tou"and English"Head",throughing light on similar-ities and differences in metaphorical construction and operation mechanism.
文摘In classical theories of language,metaphor is viewed as a linguistic phenomenon.In the new theoretical framework of metaphor studies,in everyday conventional language conceptual metaphor has functions of structuring conceptual system,conceptualizing abstract concepts in terms of the comprehensible ones and providing a new understanding of our experience.
文摘Harry Potter series, as well-known children's literature, possess plenty of invented words by their author, J.K. Rowling. While reading, people yet have no difficulty in understanding those words by means of conceptual metaphor and metonymy.This paper selected one such kind of words,"Slytherin", from the books and analyzed the mapping process of the formation of its concept. First of all, its source word"slithering"reminds people of snake, whose features including coldness, mystery and implied death has been mapped into the concept of"Slytherin". Also the features of flag colors(green and silver), and persons in Slytherin all contribute to the formation of its concept. Finally two practical examples will be analyzed.
