On the basis of Wisniewski s "alignable difference",Pustejovsky s "qualia structure",Lakoff s "conceptual metaphor",Kovecses s "conceptual metonymy" and Goossens s "metaphtonymy",the paper focuses on metaphtonymic noun-noun compounds in Chinese and English to account for their internal semantic structures.

Through analysis and interpretation on the nature,cognitive principle,operational models and cognitive motivations of conceptual metonymy,the paper attempts to demonstrate that,as a conceptual mapping in a domain,metonymy is a cognitive process in which one conceptual entity,the vehicle,provides mental access to another conceptual entity,the target,within the same idealized cognitive model.

The large amount of metonymy mapping in language is in fact the embodiment and reflection of conceptual metonymy.

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.