Metaphor in cognitive linguistics

This article presents a contrastive analysis of conceptual metaphors (CMs) denoting the concept of “Life” in English and Vietnamese lyric songs. Based on the theoretical background of many linguists, especially Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Lee (2001), Kovêcses (2005, 2010), as well as the data collected from the questionnaire and interviews, the study investigates and explores the similarities and differences in CMs of “Life” between the two languages from the cognitive perspective.

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The thesis aims at examining the metaphors of season in English and Vietnamese songs in the light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Subsequently, a comparison is made to find out the similarities and differences between the conceptual metaphors of season in English and Vietnamese song lyrics when SEASON is treated as a target domain as well as a source domain. Simultaneously, several explanations are given as causes for these similarities and differences.

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This study primarily concentrates on the metaphors used in economic reports. Its aim is to have an insight into how metaphors are correlated to human physical experience and constructed in economic reports. In addition, the analysis of this correlation will set foundation for later categorization of the source domains which are exploited in the metaphors in these economic reports.

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This study aims to investigate idioms that carry conceptual metaphor about power based on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson. To go further, this study is done to explore the similarities and the differences between the use of metaphor about power in English and Vietnamese idioms that reflect the culture of each language community.

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This study aims to find out the effect of applying linguistics perception and teaching spatial and metaphorical meanings of English prepositions above, among, at, behind, beside, between, in, in front of, on and under.

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Studying this thesis, that gets a lot of knowledge to understand more about the items of cognitive linguistics. Studying, applying, using cognitive linguistics is of large significance with us in dealing with numerous problems of linguistics that was not explained by classic theory. Especially with foreign language learners like me, cognitive linguistics opened a new view so that they can approach foreign language easier.

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Among matters being researched dealing with cognitive linguistics, metaphor has been dramatically taken into consideration and regarded as a specific mental mapping that provide a foundation for human thought and conceptualization.

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The aim of the thesis is to apply the theory in cognitive linguistics to Vietnamese to establish the conceptual structure and conceptual domain “food”, discover the target domains, the source domains, mapping system and the mapping mechanism among the conceptual domains; codifying metaphorical notion of "food" in Vietnamese in order to study cognitive characteristics and Vietnamese cultural identity through conceptual metaphor of "food”.

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