In my thesis a large number of love metaphors of both English and Chinese areinvestigated syst.

This study analyzes similarities and differences of love metaphor in English and Chinese from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.

On Understanding and Creation of Conceptual Metaphor——Also on its Enlightement on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language;

A comparative study of conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual integration;

Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Its Implications for EFL Vocabulary Learning;

Ideational metaphor is realized through the transference from the congruent form to metaphorical form and nominalizaftion is a manifestation of the ideational metaphor at the lexical and grammatical level.

In English news reporting,ideational metaphor mainly includes nominalization and adjectivalization,with the latter a little higher than the former in its proportion.

The categories of conceptual metaphors and its cognitive force in language teaching;

From the comparative study of Chinese and English conceptual metaphors,we found there are similarities and dissimilarities between Chinese and English conceptual metaphors,the similarities provide convenience for metaphor translation,while the dissimilarities make it difficult.

And currently it is generally agreed that these widespread metaphoric expressions in language derive from conceptual metaphors which are believed to exist in our conceptual system.