The court-style poems reflect the psychological features of boudoirs by means of time image,space image and metaphor image,etc.

This paper attempts to illuminate the interrelations between metaphor,thoughts and language,probes into the necessity and feasibility of fostering English learners’ metaphor awareness and metaphorical competence,and explore a tentative teaching approach that conforms to the reform of College English teaching.

This study attempts to investigate the effect of metaphor awareness on English idiom learning with non-English major college students through the analysis of variance from four perspectives.

It thinks that metaphor awareness extends the dimension for both the teaching and learning and provides us another alternative to helping the students to overcome the common problems such as the poor vocabulary,logically incoherence and so on.

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.

Based on the view of the nature and the function of metaphor,this paper intends to explore the roles of metaphoric awareness with special reference to in-depth reading comprehen.