Analysis On Metaphor And Metonymy In Poplular Songs

In traditional linguistics, metaphor and metonymy were regarded as rhetorical devices. The recent studies of cognitive linguistics and psychology show that metaphor and metonymy are the powerful tools of understanding and expressing abstract concepts; they not only belong to language but also belong to cognition. Metaphor and metonymy based on the resemblance and relevance of conceptual structure are the projections from one to another cognitive category, and the processes of understanding and expressing another thing.Metaphor is including noun metaphor, verb metaphor, adjectival metaphor, adverbial metaphor, proverbial metaphor, sustained metaphor. Metonymy is including thing-and-part metonymy, scale metonymy, constitution metonymy, event metonymy, category-and-member metonymy, category-and-property metonymy, reduction metonymy, action metonymy, perception metonymy, causation metonymy, production metonymy, control metonymy, possession metonymy, container metonymy, location metonymy, sign-and- reference metonymy, modification metonymy.The article has analyzed various the category metaphor and metonymy phenomenon appearing in words of pop song , has been in progress and classify and analyzing , has summed up out the effect and characteristic applying the metaphor and metonymy in words of pop song, and has analyzed existence such characteristic cause, has brought forward the problem needing to pay attention to.