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On the Function of Conceptual Metaphor in Constructing Text Coherence

Author: ChenZuo
Tutor: MaBaoJin
School: Henan University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Chapter Coherent
CLC: H05
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2006
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Abstract

Metaphor linguists, psychologists, philosophers, and many other areas of research scholars keen. Since the time of Aristotle, more than two thousand years ago, have different periods in the history of the development of numerous sage patriots of this magical metaphor and temptation topic actively discussed. With the development of the natural and social sciences, the metaphor is also deepening. Cognitive and experienced to semantics from the modification of the means of language disorders, from temporary unnatural meaning to human understanding of the basic tools of the world, such a process of change. This process is an outside to the inside, from the language level down to the level of thinking process. In this process, it is no longer only metaphor as a rhetorical device simple language a narrow, but the study of philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and other areas of research methods, the metaphor seen as a mode of thinking and cognitive processes. With the depth of metaphor research scholars got a better understanding of the features and functions of metaphor generation mechanisms and metaphors. But they view the metaphorical nature of role and there is no uniform. It is these mutually complementary and mutually contradictory research methods and research to promote people from a different point of view on the nature of metaphor to conduct in-depth research and discussion. So far, people from a cognitive perspective on metaphor research has made many achievements. Cognitive linguists believe that the metaphor is a common way of thinking (Thinking Pattern), and an understanding of the people according to their own real experience, understanding, experience and expression of the basic means of subjective and objective worlds people thinking inherent in the operation of the mechanism. This mechanism has its cognitive basis, that experience itself and the objective environment and awareness. From a cognitive point of view, the metaphor is a mapping between different conceptual domains (Mapping). This mapping is often from a concrete metaphor users, familiar, relatively simple and easy to quantify concept mapping to abstract, strange, more complex and not easy to quantify the concept, rather than the opposite. This process is in line with the law of the awareness of the world. Mental space theory is that there are a variety of psychological space in people's thinking, that is, a variety of conceptual domains (Conceptual Domain). The cognitive linguist draw a mental space theory research and apply it to the metaphor. They think that the metaphor people psychologically a conceptual space (Conceptual Space), the simple result of the mapping of the formation of the concept of space is not between two conceptual domains has two conceptual domains, but a certain common or is a similar characteristic, but also with

On the Function of Conceptual Metaphor in Constructing Text Coherence

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