This paper makes a brief introduction of the principle of metaphorical cognition and aesthetics.

The agentive factors of metaphorical cognition mainly refer to the interpreter s familiarity with the metaphor and his/her knowledge background while the contextual factors chiefly refer to.

In our country,many scholars have done the contrastive study of metaphorical cognition between English and Chinese.

This article wants to explain that the principle of cognition of metaphor is the transfer of the vehicle′s semantic feature into the tenor by the cognitive reasoning, which will make the tenor be categorized anew and contain a new semantic feature which has been veiled as it is categorized primarily.

Namely,they are the result of metaphoric cognition of human beings.

Metaphorical Cognition in Improving Reading Comprehension for English Majors;

This thesis has mainly explained semantic extension mechanism of basic color terms on the basis of metonymy and metaphor from synchronic approach.

This paper uses prototype theory and cognitive mode of metaphor to reinterpret the phenomenon of polysemy from the cognitive linguistic point of view,which will be of great benefit to the teaching of polysemic words.

It holds that these nature-women metaphors reflect the culture and metaphorical conceptual system of a particular society,in which the control of man towards nature and the superiority of men towards women are built on the same conceptual opposition that patriarchal culture sets up between men and culture on the one hand and women and nature on the other hand.