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Important part as a metaphor of the human metaphor, exist in all aspects of life at an early stage in the the metaphor development process in that it is a passive metaphor, however, it constitutes the basis of human understanding of the world and describe the world. In this paper, corpus analysis, the use of Cognitive Linguistics in Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conceptual metaphor, for example, the typical human metaphor phenomenon Dong both English language, analysis of the similarity of their thinking, and reveals the psychological basis of semantic features It showed the human metaphor cognition is not only the cognitive tools of human understanding of the world, but also laid the foundation for other similar type of creative metaphor. Dong language is a minority language in the South of China, Zhuang and Dong Kam-Tai language branch belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family. Rapid development of the Dong language at home and abroad, has also made a lot of achievements. Europe and Japan and other Southeast Asian countries, some linguists have done some research on the Dong language. However, the scope of the previous studies mainly in phonology and syntax contrast, this article focuses predecessors on the basis of carried out research on the the Dong Ying human metaphor. The paper is divided into five parts. The first chapter is the introduction, the research background, significance, research questions, research methods, corpus sources and papers framework and innovation and a brief introduction of the the Dong language and its culture. Chapter II literature review on the traditional metaphor theory and cognitive metaphor theory distinction and highlight the concept of metaphor and human metaphor overview of the status and significance of the previous study of English and Dong language human metaphor. Third, the chapters is the main part of this paper, the author will have to sort out the human metaphor corpus Dong language and English, and then dissect produce similarities and differences in terms of culture, religion, geography, environment, lifestyle and way of thinking reason. The fifth chapter is the conclusion, summarized in the article point of view and pointed out the significance of the research and its application prospects and insufficient. Theoretically, Dong both the English language did not happen necessarily linked science, but the study from the Dong language perspective verified Lakoff and K? Metaphor cognitive vecses concept universality and cultural relativism perspective, thus expanding the human body metaphor of the scope of the study. The paper concludes that Dong the British human body metaphor has similar sources of content, expression and style characteristics; but due to reasons of history, language, character and national culture, Dong British human Metaphors also exist in the content source, expression and phonology number syntax or style differences. The significance of this paper is mainly reflected in the following aspects: (1) reveals the metaphor of the human body as a cognitive tool, it is far greater than the cognitive function linguistic phenomenon. (2) to promote the exchange of Dong British nationalities; (3) for Dong regions English Teaching provides an example of cross-cultural comparative study of the two languages ??of British Dong; (4) bring some enlightenment to of Dong both English language translation .
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