| In 1980, Lakoff and Johnson proposed cognitive theory of metaphor. The emergence of this theory has completely broken the traditional concept of metaphor, the metaphor of rhetoric from the traditional concept of development to cognitive science research. Metaphor of the Theory of Metaphor greatly enriched the vitality of this research direction, discipline and even led to the birth of metaphor.It is based on the depth of the development of metaphor theory, the resulting breadth of the development of metaphor. The cross between metaphoric cognitive theory and other subject brings new fusion, such as metaphoric cognitive learning, metaphoric linguistic and foreign language teaching. This will undoubtedly bring to the development of Metaphor positive vitality. New Metaphors become a focus of research, but also had many, multi-angle Metaphors results.Given the current rapid development of Metaphors current trend, I hope that the current "English Studies emotional metaphor" to review, to summarize, sort, summarize the current wealth of research results, and in the meantime I added this issue in three years by the instructor arising from the teachings of Ponder in order to provide a reference for future research.By combing the results of the current study, researchers found that the problem from all angles studied. In conclusion, the analysis of the paper is mainly from the source domain and target domain. The author from the perspective of the source domain, for various types of classified summary of the source domain, and the source domain and target domain of the similarities and differences are analyzed, but also differences between the discussed.In the course of the study, I feel emotional Metaphor in the study of English has the following characteristics:First, the source and target domain with the domain is mainly based on universal human identity; Second, the source domain and target domain with reflecting the different language of the local culture; Third, the choice of the source domain has a unique geographical language; Fourth, any source and target domains are the source domain with the domain transfer experience. |
