Modern Chinese Words And Phrases Research On Animal Metaphors

Metaphor study has been on for a long time, after more than two thousand years,and last long, from rhetoric to cognitive science, from a kind of rhetoric to identifiedas thinking way of cognitive metaphor, has been to the peculiar glamour attractdifferent subject experts and scholars in-depth study, with the rise of cognitive science,people shift that previous metaphor just rhetoric ideas, but think that metaphor is acognitive activities, metaphor in human life very important, can say life metaphor iseverywhere, on one hand report to know metaphor the world, on the other hand, havealso played a role as a language form of influence people cognizing the world.Animal metaphors are a kind of metaphor, is the animal as original domain, willpeople as a target region of cross-realm projection is a way of thinking, animalmetaphorical phenomenon not complex, but the result of human animal attribute andthe use of animal metaphors people behind the language model is full of greatlinguistics connotation, so has been maintained since the heat of the study. EspeciallyChinese culture connotation is rich, language, flexible intriguing, more deserving of astudy.This article from the linguistics Angle, to the Chinese animal metaphors combanalytical, reviews and summarizes the new period the new development of Chineseanimal metaphors, try for Chinese animal metaphors in the new time facesumming-up.Language is the most important communication tool, language with a strongcultural mark, animal metaphors reflects the between different languages and culturesof the unity of opposites, and through the study of animal metaphors can better reflectthe different religious beliefs and national historical and cultural background of thepeople under the influence in form and use the language of different thinking.The cognitive metaphorical learn related theory as the basic theoreticalfoundation, will the projection of the mechanism from animal metaphors; English andChinese animal metaphors comparison; Network times animal metaphors newdevelopment; In teaching Chinese as a foreign language animal metaphors arediscussed, in order to the development of Chinese animal metaphors help, to providetheoretical support for teaching Chinese as a foreign language.