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.

In the light of metaphorical concept,one of the new achievements of cognitive linguistics,the paper first explores the relationship between metaphor and thought,then between metaphor and vocabulary.

George Lakoff & Mark Johnson proposed the term "metaphorical concept",which allows us to make connections across experiential domains and to find coherence between unrelated or not necessarily similar events.

This paper discusses from the cognitive perspective the three major aspects of metaphor: its prototypicality in the category of comparison; the relationship between a concept and its conceptual factors in the metaphorical concept and its metaphorical expressions and the hierarchical implications among the metaphorical concepts in the source domain and the target domain.