The Application of Conceptual Metaphor in English Vocabulary Teaching 英语毕业论文

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1、TheApplicationofConceptualMetaphorinEnglishVocabularyTeachingIntroductionBaseontheinadequateapplicationinEnglishteachingandlearninginChinabearingcross-culturalcharacteristics,theauthormakesacomparisondometaphorsandtheirlinguisticrepresentationsinEnglishandChinese.Sincetheclos

2、erelationshipofmetaphor.LanguageandhasmadethesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenEnglishandChineseexpectable,soitisdevotedtomakingthecomparisonsystematicbyfollowingthethreetypesofconceptualmetaphorsaimingtoprovethatitisapracticalandfeasiblewaytoteachEnglishculturethroughmetaphor

3、.BaseonMetaphorTheoryandthecomparisonbetweenEnglishcultureandtheChineseintermsofconceptualmetaphors.wecanusemetaphortoexplaintheexpansionandextensionofmeanings,toidentifyidiomsconveyingsimilarmeanings,orrevealtheculturalsystemofEnglish-speakingpeoplesbyanalyzingconceptualmeta

4、phor.wecanadoptatop-downwaytograspthemainideaofanEnglishreadingandfurtheracquireknowledgeofacertainfield.171.AnIntroductiontoMetaphor1.1StudiesabroadInthebroadersense,appliedlinguisticsincludesmetaphorintheactualusagesuchasforeignlanguageteachingandlearning,children’scomprehe

5、nsionabilitytestingandillnesstreatmentetc.Studyingmetaphorinthelanguagelearningandteachingisthemajorconcernofthispaper.ItisgenerallyrecognizedthatthepublicationofCameron’Low’sResearchingandApplyingMetaphorin1999leadsmetaphorstudyintothefieldofappliedlinguistics.So,“eventhestu

6、dyofmetaphorhasexplodedinthelastdecades,littleoftheimpactofthatexplosionhassofarreachedAppliedLinguistics”(CameronLynne&GLow.1999:77).RichardBailey,alsosupportstheview“conceptualmetaphor…hasmadelittleimpactinlanguagepedagogy”(BaileyRichard2003:59).Inspiteofthefactthattheworks

7、ofapplyingmetaphorintolanguageteachingincludingvocabularyteachingarefew,manyscholarshavecontributedtotheissueLow(1988)discussesthewideuseandcentralstatusofmetaphor,andanalyzesthatlearnersneedtodevelopmetaphoriccompetence:awarenessofmetaphor,andmethodstocomprehendandcreatemeta

8、phors.Lazar(1996)suggestsfigurativelanguageshouldbeawaytoexpandlearn