文档介绍：Abstract
This article, which is mainly from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, and based on the cognitive view of metaphor, researches the similarities and differences on metaphorical words between Chinese and English, and explore the reasons which cause these phenomenon. At the same time, through this contrastive study, the result of the study will be directly applied to the vocabulary teaching of TCFL, which is to better the problems in the vocabulary teaching of TCFL and put forward more effective teaching methods.
The first chapter of this paper is a brief introduction of this thesis. In this part, we
discuss the research purpose, research methods and literature review of this study at home and abroad. The second chapter of this paper set up the theory framework of metaphor. In this framework the philosophical foundation of metaphor, definition, operation mechanism and classification will be presented in detail. The third chapter is the contrastive study of metaphorical word between Chinese and English. In this part we select the entity metaphor of Chinese “TOU、SHOU” and English “HEAD” and spatial metaphor of Chinese “GAO/DI” and English “HIGH/LOW” as two cases to study. Both “TOU(SHOU)”and “HEAD” are basic vocabularies in Chinese and English, they have the
same cognitive mechanism, and both choose shape, location, related physiology phenomenon and action as the target domain. “ GAO/DI” and “HIGH/LOW” both choose quantity, social rank, time, state and sense as the target domain. The last chapter according to the similarities and differences between Chinese and English, analyze the reasons for these phenomenon, which mainly lies in the different of living environment, customs and values. Moreover discuss the application of contrastive study of metaphorical word between Chinese and English, and put forward the related teaching methods, principles and procedure.
Keywords: Chinese-English contrastive study Metaphor TCFL Vocabulary teaching
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