Since conceptual metaphors andimage schemas have some specific cognitive features, it is claimed that both conceptualmetaphors and image schemas can facilitate the learning of those linguistic expressionsderived from the two cognitive models.

In context of "Image Era" when the world is coded into images(also called "picture-reading time"),the article makes studies on features of images which is prevalently dominated by photos and digitalized virtual pictures,and introduces its evolution,from the perspective of visual culture study,and "image awareness" in the sense of phenomenology.

Reinforcement of image ideograms and the decline of character appreciation are changing the artistic sociology and symbol aesthetics of this age.

Sensory image schema: a new cognitive model of synaesthesia;

An analysis of the image schemas of "on","over" and "above";

Based upon the theory of conceptual metaphor and image schema by Lakoff & Johnson and a serial cross-linguistic comparative study of spatial conceptual words such as "on" and "under",a successive study of another word taken as the concept of image schema "OVER/DESSUS/SHANG BIAN" from English,French and Chinese respectively is conducted.

The dimensions of image schemas,including their definitions,attributes,classifications and their status in philosophy,have all been thoroughly discussed.

Questionings of the standard of the concept of image schemas have piled up,centering on the level of abstraction of them,the role of visual information in them,the pre-vs.

This paper mainly concerns the metaphor with body parts or organs according to the theories of conceptual metaphor,mapping and image schemas raised by Lakoff and Johnson.