On The Conceptual Metaphor Of Dehan From The Perspective Of Cognition

Traditional metaphor theory and cognitive metaphor theory is essentially different, the former is seen as a purely rhetorical metaphor, which, in essence, that metaphor is a cognitive activity, is to experience and understand a thing by another thing; understanding of human thought processes and the way the world is metaphorical.Lakoff & Johnson to prove the feasibility of English corpus cognitive metaphor theory, then the theory is also applicable to other languages do? It has a universal right? This article will take this question from a person’s emotions, organs, and three aspects of basic color terms, through comparative analysis of German and Chinese relevant specific metaphorical expression and summarized in German and English conceptual metaphor of character and individuality, and from history, culture, geography and environment of the two languages German and English conceptual metaphor differences conduct research to demonstrate Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory applicability in German and Chinese.