| In the popular songs field in China, Fang Wenshan's"Chinese style"songs enjoy the popularity of young people. The reason lies in that young people share similar ideologies with him. Some researches have explored his ideologies from the rhetoric and cultural perspectives. However, this thesis is carried out from a different angle--conceptual metaphor. By analyzing conceptual metaphors, Lakoff summarized worldviews of liberals and conservatives and extended his observations to their major ideological conflicts, demonstrating that ideology can be revealed by conceptual metaphors.Therefore, inspired by Lakoff, this thesis attempts to make an elaborate exploration of Fang Wenshan's ideologies implied in the lyrics of his"Chinese style"songs, from the perspective of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, aiming to answer the following questions: (1) What are the main topics in the lyrics of Fang Wenshan's"Chinese style"songs? (2) What are his ideologies implied by conceptual metaphors and how do these conceptual metaphors reflect his ideologies? (3) Why do young people prefer his lyrics?This thesis is designed as a case study. Corpus of this research is composed of the lyrics from 34 Fang Wenshan's"Chinese style"songs. Metaphorical expressions are classified into 5 categories according to the topics of love, war, traditional Chinese culture, Kung Fu and homesickness. In each topic, metaphorical expressions are categorized in accordance with their source domains. Following them, the case study which covers the explanation of conceptual metaphors and the implied ideologies in the five topics is presented.Metaphorical expressions are abundant in the corpus. The major source domains include journey, human, flower, container, drink, entity, water, liquor, illness, medicine, bow and arrow, tea, Hutong and moon. The case study reveals some of Fang Wenshan's ideologies behind the conceptual metaphors. The love in modern society, in his eyes, is sad, difficult, regretful, helpless and temporary. War, depriving people of lives and happiness, should be strictly controlled. Traditional Chinese culture deserves great respect and therefore the blind worship of western culture should be abandoned. Kung Fu is not a violent means harming to people, but a possible way to get rid of some annoying things. The trend to leave one's hometown and culture for the so called better future and fortune is not rational. To prevent culture homesickness, the protection of cultural heritage is necessary. These ideologies are appreciated and recognized by young people, contributing to the success of Fang Wenshan's lyrics.The attempt of this thesis broadens the corpus of conceptual metaphors'practical use, proves the effective function of conceptual metaphor in analyzing the ideology and offers a hint for a more efficient education we wish to give to young people.
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