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the comparison of the metaphors of love in chinese and english cultures.doc

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the comparison of the metaphors of love in chinese and english cultures,abstract: in the traditional rhetoric metaphor is only a figure of speech while in the newly rising cognitive linguistics metaphor occupies a central position a...
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Abstract:
In the traditional rhetoric metaphor is only a figure of speech while in the newly rising cognitive linguistics metaphor occupies a central position and it is regarded as an important cognitive tool to help us understand this world better and clearer. It is so important that it has become the metaphor we live by. This dissertation makes a comparative study of love metaphors in English and those in Chinese from the perspective of cognitive linguistics with the aim of supporting the contemporary cognitive theory of metaphor from the viewpoints of both English and Chinese cultures. This dissertation makes a comparative study of love metaphors in English and those in Chinese from the perspective of cognitive linguistics with the aim of supporting the contemporary cognitive theory of metaphor from the viewpoints of both English and Chinese cultures.
This study supports that metaphor is so pervasive and irreducible in the expression of abstract emotion like love that it appears to play an essential or indispensable role in our understanding and speaking. It also offers evidence supporting Layoff and Kvasses' (1987) suggestion that emotional concepts are embodied that is they have a basis in bodily experience. This thesis also reveals the relationship between metaphor and culture. English language is mainly influenced by the idea of Christianity materialism and individualism. However the conceptualization of love in Chinese language is strongly influenced by the Confucianism yin-yang theory and collectivism.
Keywords: Conceptual metaphor; Cognition love culture