A Contrastive Analysis Between English&Chinese Spatial Metaphors Of "up And Down" From Cognitive And Cultural Perspectives

Spatial metaphor mentioned in the article is the most important type among the alltypes. All abstracted concept can be expressed by the spatial metaphor. People are ableto obtain the concept through the spatial metaphor. In the article, it positively learnsthe advance experience from the former researches, which the researches are focus onthe postposition, and provide the advisable explanation for the idea. It is able toprovide the great support on the research of Chinese.Generally speaking, the purpose of the culture contrastive includes the cultivationof the attitude on the understanding of the culture gap as well as the cultivation of theadjustment of the culture. It is able to accept the difference between each other andstrengthen the understanding of Chinese culture. Even the communication betweenEast and West can be promoted in fluency once the adjustment is improved. Metaphoris the tool to understand the world. In the article, it is focus on the “Up” and “Down” andthe metaphor accordingly. The research is able to help understand the different societybackground, and it is able to help us broaden the knowledge and improve the logicthought.In the article,“the cognitive concept of the metaphor” and “the contrast of cognitiveculture” is considered as the theory direction. The cognitive culture contrast has beenanalyzed in the aspect of time, status, number, social relations and geography position,even the further reason between the cognitive of the Chinese&English words. In thedifferent language, metaphor is considered as the important cognitive way. Theselection and expression on Chinese and English would be observed and thedifference of the spatial metaphor would be observed as well. And then, the casedwould be analyzed by several groups. Due to the different culture, the metaphor isdifferent between Chinese and English for “up” and “down”. In the aspect of time,Chinese thinks that the past is the best, but English thinks the future is the best. In theaspect of statues, English is objective, but Chinese is subjective. It is linked deeplywith the long history development between East and West. In the end, the conclusionwould be obtained. It is confirmed that the metaphor is the very important language phenomenon and cognitive model. The further research would be focus on the analysisof the contrast on the different development stage between the Eastern and Westernsociety. The similarities and differences can be referred to research on” in” and “out”,“left” and “right” as well.