Study On Discourse Style From Conceptual Metaphor Perspective

Conceptual metaphor can be viewed as an important theory in cognitive linguistics.It provides us with a new perspective for the study of discourse style.The conceptual metaphor is not just the mapping from the source domain to the target domain and it also offers us a new way to explore the objective world,and the reader can understand the obscure language in the novel.To make a reasonable explanation of the stylistic features of the novel,it is required for us to explore the language features of the novel from the perspective of conceptual metaphors.At the same time,readers can understand the theme of the novel and explore the protagonist's attitude toward life.The Lakoff's conceptual metaphor theory provides us a new perspective to explore the discourse style of the novel,No Signposts in the Sea.In the past,the study of Vita's novel,No Signposts in the Sea,is mainly from the perspective of feminism,stream of consciousness and poetic language.This kind of research focuses on the study of discourse plots.There is no complete explanation of the language of the novel.Conceptual metaphor combines the novel language with the main idea of writer.It highlights the theme of the novel.Conceptual metaphor can stimulate the reader's imagination and let the reader resonate with literary works.Then the reader can catch the main idea of the novel.Based on the comparison of structural,ontological,and orientational metaphor in the novel,it can be concluded that the conceptual metaphor is a scientific and effective way to interpret the discourse style in the novel.We will exert the advantages of conceptual metaphor through the analysis of the stylistic features of the novel.The author concludes that conceptual metaphor provides theoretical support to explain the style features of the discourse.Through the research,it can be possible to conclude that conceptual metaphor theory can explain the stylistic features of the novel.The mapping from the source domain to the target domain causes the ambiguity of the discourse.At the same time,it unites the individual part of the novel.Therefore,conceptual metaphor theory can help the reader to grasp the artistic conception,and hazy beauty of the novel.At the same time,the influence of conceptual metaphor theory on the discourse style is realized through discourse coherence and foregrounding.The thesis mainly takes care of the stylistic effects of conceptual metaphor from the discourse level.The ambiguity of multiple metaphors in the same text is expected to result in the ambiguity of discourse.Foregrounding is the result of semantic deviation of discourses on the whole.Conceptual metaphor makes various parts of a sentence connected.The coherence between different sentences forms the theme of the novel.Conceptual metaphor cannot only help the reader to understand the stylistic features of the novel and it can stimulate the reader's interest as well as the author's resonance.As Vita is a renowned British novelist,she enjoys the fame in the literary world.No Signposts in the Sea is her last novel.In recent years,from the perspective of cognitive linguistics,the study of the novel is very little.In the novel,there are a lot of sentences and languages which are worth studying from the conceptual metaphor theory.Therefore,the thesis studies the stylistic features of the novel from a new perspective.