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1、ACross-culturalComparisonofChineseandEnglishMetaphorACross-culturalComparisonofChineseandEnglishMetaphorYuanyuanZhou*YuanyuanZhou,assistantofForeignLanguageDepartment,HebeiUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness;Researchfield:cross-culturalcommunication;Address:ForeignLang
2、uageDepartment,NorthCampus,HebeiUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness,No.47,XuefuRoad,Shijiazhuang,Hebei;Postcode:050061;Tel:13603393721;E-mail:kittenjoe@sina.comLiLi**LiLi,assistantofForeignLanguageDepartment,HebeiUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness;Researchfield:TEFL;Addr
3、ess:TheFirstTeachingandResearchOfficeofForeignLanguageDepartment,NorthCampus,HebeiUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness,No.47,XuefuRoad,Shijiazhuang,Hebei;Postcode:050061;Tel:0311-6971783,13131193989.HebeiUniversityofEconomics&BusinessAbstract:Inthewakeofconstantintercul
4、turalcommunicationintheglobalvillage,wearebecomingmoreandmoreawarethatouracademicstudiesareculturallybound.Asthetooltoexpressandcommunicatethoughtsandfeelings,languageisofnoexception.Thisrealizationofcultureboundnessofthinkingonthesubjectoflinguisticsbringswithitasi
5、ncereeffortamonglinguisticianstodevelopsomeinsightintocross-culturalcommunication,socio-linguistics,ethnolinguistics,andotherrelevantsubjects.ItisinthiscontextthatthisessayaddressestheuseofmetaphorasawayofcultureexpressinginChineseandEnglishlanguage.Theconceptofmeta
6、phorplaysanimportantroleintheprocessofhuman’sunderstandingandreformingtheworld.Itsbirthanddevelopmenthasinterrelationshipwiththatofculture.Thesimilarityofmetaphorindifferentlanguagesisbasedonhuman’scommonfunctionofphysiologyandpsychology,livingenvironment,etc.andthe
7、culture-specificaspectssuchastheparticularreligion,custom,history,andgeography,turnouttobethemaincauseofthedifferentusageofmetaphorinChineseandEnglishlanguage.Thethesisthusdealswiththeconceptofmetaphorandexaminestheaspectsofsimilarityanddiversitybetweendifferentcult
8、uresofChineseandEnglishmetaphorthroughcomparison,hereincludingsuchnotionsasculturaloverlaps,culturaldiversity,culturalvacancy,etc.Thegener
