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1、隐喻和大学英语词汇教学　　摘要：隐喻不仅是自然语言中普遍存在的一种现象，而且影响我们的思维方式。隐喻作为认知和语言的纽带，在词汇学习中扮演着不可或缺的角色。从隐喻入手学习词汇符合认知规律，可有效的突破传统词汇学习的瓶颈，从而帮助学生达到真正意义上的概念流利。　　关键词：认知隐喻；概念隐喻；英语教学　　Abstract:Metaphorisaubiquitousphenomenoninthenaturallanguageandactuallyinfluencesourwayofthinking.Wordlearningfr

2、ommetaphorconformstothelawofcognitivescience.Withthehelpofmetaphor，studentscaneffectivelyextricatefromdifficultyinwordlearning，andachieveagenuineconceptualfluency.　　Keywords:cognitivesemantics;conceptualmetaphor;teachinginEnglish　　　　I.Preface　　Fromthebeginningofl

3、astcenturytonow，scholarshavedonemuchresearchonmetaphorfromdifferentanglessuchasphilosophy，logics，linguisticsandsoon.Theyfindthatmetaphorexistseverywhereinpeople’sdailylife，andsodoesinalmostallhumanlanguage.In1980，Lakoff&Johnson’sbookMetaphorsWeLiveBywaspublis

4、hed，fromwhichweknowmoreabouttheimportanceandrelationshipbetweenmetaphorandlanguage-studying.IncollegeEnglishvocabularyteaching，teacherswillfrequentlycontactwithmetaphorphenomenoninwordlearning，grammarandchapters.Englishvocabularyisabundant，bothsimpleandcomplicate

5、d，manyofwhicharesomewhatromanticandmysterious.Ifapersonwantstouseanewlanguagewelltoexpresshimselfandcommunicatewithothers，heshouldacquireplentyofvocabulary.Sointhispaper，IwillprobeintothesignificanceofmetaphoronthevocabularyteachingincollegeEnglish.　　II．Thedefini

6、tionofmetaphorandsomerelatedresearch　　ThewordmetaphororiginatedfromthewordmetaphereinofGreek，inwhichmetameansoverandphereinmeanstocarry，andthewholemeaningistocarryover.Earlymorethantwothousandyearsago，inancientGreek，AristotledefinedinhisbookPoeticsthatmetaphorist

7、ousethenameofanothermatterasthatofthisone.Inlater1980s，AmericanscholarAlbertindicatedthatmetaphorisakindofvaluablestructureoflanguage.　　Lakoff&Johnsonusethemappingbetweensourcedomainandtargetdomainandimageschemastorevealthemetaphorphenomenon.4Theypointedthato

8、urconceptualsystemislargelymetaphorical，andourordinaryconceptualsystem，intermsofwhichweboththinkandact，isfundamentallymetaphoricalinnature（Lakoff&Johnson，1