The Metaphor Framing And The Conceptual Integration In Children's Stories

The primary objective of the thesis is to analyze the metaphorical frame and conceptual integration in the stories of children, using the Two-Domain Model proposed by Lakoff and Johnson, and the Many Space Model by Fauconnier and Turner respectively and hence to understand the cognitive activities in story thinking and narrative imagination.In my analysis, I found that there are some rich metaphorical messages in the stories of children. On the one hand, they are not just a kind of rhetoric style; rather, they are systematic cross-domain mapping in the conceptual system. Metaphor frames the structures and themes of stories and constrains the development of stories. On the other hand, conceptual integration is a basic cognitive operation for creating new meanings. Conceptual integration is a dynamic, supple, and active at the moment of thinking. It provides us with a way to cognitive activities involve metaphorical or non-metaphorical understanding in story thinking. Through the analysis of metaphorical frames and conceptual integration, we understood better about the interesting aspects of the children story.