The theory of conceptual metaphor has particular influence over metaphor study,which is employed in this paper to analyze the manifestation of Japanese metaphors so as to understand the metaphorical meaning by reasoning,structure-compounding and cognitive association.

However,what makes a Japanese metaphor really effective is not the surface language structure,but the metaphorical conception in the mind,or man s way of thinking and cognition.

Metaphor language has profound humanistic education value,and metaphor thinking has cognition and creation function.

As a cut-in point,textual metaphor is discussed to study the textual clues in English poetry.

This paper is aimed at exploring textual metaphor from the perspectives of semiotics and cognitive linguistics.

Under systemic-functional framework,grammatical metaphor is divided into ideational metaphor, interpersonal metaphor and textual metaphor.

Investigation into English Majors spoken and Written Production from the Perspective of Grammatical Metaphor;

Grammatical Metaphor and Its Types Comparison in English and Chinese Scientific Languages;

The grammatical metaphor of technic and science in English;

Further discussion is made to summarize the types of English metaphor and their own expressing effect as well in specific terms.

This paper discusses the comprehension and translation of English metaphors.