The Study Of Metaphor In College English Professional Textbooks

Metaphor is a linguistic phenomenon. It is not only a phenomenon of thinking but also a cultural phenomenon. It exists in language and lives. Modern metaphor theory claims that metaphor is ubiquitous. Metaphor is sometimes difficult to learn. Though there are many teachers and scholars carrying out researches on metaphor, cognitive psychology theory and context theory separately to English teaching, there is no systematic and integral application of all these three to teaching metaphors in college English professional students' textbooks. It will become easier when it's learned by means of using cognitive psychology theory and context theory. With the guidance of both theories, college English professional teaching can focus on the metaphors appearing in all sorts of phenomena in textbooks and classify them to explore the functions of these metaphor types. Therefore, this study gives some pedagogical implications that metaphors can be easily understood and learnt from the perspective of cognitive psychology and context. In addition, the use of metaphor will guide students'reading, writing, translation and other aspects of language skills. In this way, their ability in logical thinking, independent thinking and creative awareness can be fully developed. At the same time, this metaphorical awareness will deepen their understanding of western culture and enhance their understanding of society and life.This thesis takes the ubiquitous metaphor as the starting point to focus on analyzing and investigating a large number of metaphors in college English professional textbooks, supporting by cognitive psychology theory and context theory. The thesis firstly chooses the typical college English textbook-----the Advanced English Book and The Contemporary College English Course where the texts will be collected. Then, the thesis analyzes the chosen texts. Lastly, the thesis discusses the function of metaphor types in these textbooks, the relationship between cognitive psychology and metaphor and the relationship between context and metaphor, which has a great influence and significance in college English metaphor teaching.