Based on Fauconnier\'s Conceptual Integration Theory,this paper is designed to explore the cognitive mechanism of interpreting new metaphors of love by virtue of conceptual integration networks,with analytic figures displaying the dynamic cognitive process of meaning construction.

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.

The present thesis attempts to explore novel metaphor in magazine advertisements from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of metaphor in daily speech: conventional metaphor and novel metaphor.

This thesis is an attempt to explore the working mechanism and the nature of metaphor, as well as the cognitive process of novel metaphor understanding from the perspective of relevance theory.