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1、DifferencesinMetaphorbetweenChineseandWesternCultureAbstract:Metaphororiginatesfrompeople’slives,andplaysaveryimportantroleinpeople’slives.Metaphorisnowadaysnotonlyregardedasafigureofspeechbutalsoanimportanttoolinculturecommunication.Thisthesistriestoexploresomedifferencesinmetaphorbetwee
2、nChineseandWesternculture,andthushelpsinthepromotionoftheculturecommunicationbetweenChineseandWesterncountries.Keywords:metaphor;Westernculture;Chineseculture1．IntroductionMetaphororiginatesfrompeople’slives,andplaysaveryimportantroleinpeople’slives.Nowadays,thedefinitionsofmetaphorcanbef
3、oundconvenientlyindictionaries.AccordingtotheWebster’sNewWorldDictionary,metaphorisdefinedas:“afigureofspeechinwhichonethingislikenedtoanother,differentthingbybeingsspokenofasifitweretheother;impliedcomparison,inwhichawordorphraseordinarilyandprimarilyuseofonethingisappliedtoanother.”(Web
4、ster’sNewWorldDictionary,1979:1132)Metaphorisusedasarhetoricaldevicewhichmakescomparisonbetweentwoelements,unlikesimile,thiskindofcomparisonisimpliednotstated.PeterNewmarkreferredtometaphoras:“thetransferredsenseofaphysicalword;thepersonificationofabstraction;theapplicationofawordorcolloc
5、ationtowhatitdoesnotliterallydenote,i.e.todescribeonethingintermsofanother.”(Newmark,2001:104)Metaphorshowsaresemblancebetweentwosimilarthings,whichmeansimageandobject.Incognitivelinguistics,itisdefinedasthetargetdomainandsourcedomain.Similarityisthebasisofmetaphor.Forexample,“thestarsinh
6、iseyes”,thebasisfortheuseof“stars”isthesimilaritybetweenthetearsinone’seyesandtheflickeringoflightinone’seyes.BothEnglishandChineseareaboundinusingmetaphors.Butdifferentmetaphorsmaybeunderstoodindifferentcultures.Thatistosay,metaphorisculture-specific.WemayhavedifferentkindsofmetaphorsinC
7、hineseandWesterncultures.Metaphorsweusearedeterminedbyourlifeexperience,sometaphoricalexpressionsarisefromourphysicalandcultureexperience.Thusspeakersofonelanguagemayfinditdifficulttounderstandthemetaphorsofanotherlanguage,oreventhespeakersofthesamelanguagelivingfar
