The Conceptual Metaphor Analysis Of "the Right Bank Of The Ergun Rive"

The traditional metaphor research is generally seen as a rhetorical metaphor, but Lakoff andJohnson’s conceptual metaphor theory is that metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon, but alsothe cognitive means and ways of thinking, it is a mapping from the source domain to the target domain,it focuses on the analysis of the link between the concepts have been formed, this theory has formallyincluded metaphor studies into the Cognitive Science. Conceptual metaphor is an important part of thecognitive process, we can conceptualize the abstract world by this metaphorical thinking.Lakoff believes the concept of metaphor can be divided into structural metaphor, orientationmetaphor, onto-logical metaphor, this thesis will be based on Lakoff’s classification methods,classification to analyze of the conceptual metaphor of "The right bank of the ergun rive " by statistics,lists and induction. To verify the western conceptual metaphor classification standard is the sameapplies to the Chinese Corpus by the analysis of operation mechanism of conceptual metaphor. Toprove the universality of conceptual metaphor theory, and make “The Right Bank Of The ErgunRive” research into the field of linguistics.This thesis is divided into four parts. The first part is an introduction, it is a major retrospectivestudy of the history of metaphor and explains its development status; The second part is used tointroduce the concept of metaphor by Lakoff, including the nature, characteristics and classification;The third part is the focus of the paper, it will classify, organize and analyze the conceptual metaphorof “The Right Bank Of The Ergun Rive” by Lakoff’s theory; The last part is the conclusion, It willdraw the conceptual metaphor generally applicable conclusions.