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.

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.

An experimental study upon lexical acquisition based on cognitive metaphor

We found that Chinese cognitive metaphor pattern.

This article analyses the universality of cognitive metaphor from two aspects——poetic language and everyday language and employs cognitive metaphor to explore translation studies.

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

Among all human organs,visceral organs are extremely important and unique in metaphoric cognition.

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.

It is proposed that metaphor cognition be used in the teaching of English terms,because the present method of applying Chinese equivalents is far from being effective,so that the EFL learners in China can probe into the essence,better the understand-ing and application of English terms and improve the EFL acquisition effects.