Through the analysis of Le Corbusier s representative construction works and design philosophy,this article divides his development process of creative style into three stages:machine aesthetic,savagerism and metaphorism,and expounds the style characteristics at each stage,to increase the cognition of people to the architectural works of Le Corbusier.

The Polysemy and Variability of the Metaphorical Meaning and Their Understanding;

Construction of metaphorical meanings in animal terms by relevance blending theory;

This paper attempts at an analysis of the cognitive characteristics in both the Chinese and English languages by comparing the metaphorical meanings of Chinese and English animal terms.

This paper aims to discuss the metaphor-induced ambiguity interpretation and comment on the metaphor interpretation and its processing mechanism as well.

Based on the theory of cognitive linguistics and lots of semantic exemplifications,this paper proves that the semantic metaphor of "hand" in both English and Chinese shares a general character to a great extent.

Many of them have gradually gained their own metaphorical meanings.

Orientational prepositions, especially those containing rich metaphorical meanings, tend to be converted into Chinese verbs in the proc ess of translation, which is usually described as a process of "being stative" converted into "being dynamic".

Based on the preposition of locality in,the cognitive process of how the spatial meaning of in is extended into its metaphorical meanings and discussed in this paper.