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The Performance of Conceptual Metaphors in Different Language Systems

Jiaying LiCollege of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis (UCD), 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, United States* Huizhong PangCollege of Literature and Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

Metaphors are everywhere in people’s daily life, and one way to make abstract cognitive systems visualizable is by looking at the language people are using. Language is used as a tool or medium to surface abstract things with figurative concepts or to express two different concepts with a new expression, which is widely used by linguists and people in daily life. Meanwhile, we communicate or express ideas through implicit metaphors in language that also relate to our environment, our own body or mental state, and some linguistic metaphors overlap in different languages. The purpose of the present review is to comparatively analyze several languages and use the view of conceptual linguistics to summarize the relationship between people’s cognitive activity and conceptual metaphor in different language systems, including Chinese, English, and Uzbek, and in a different context, including the social environment.

Keywords: Conceptual metaphor; Conceptual linguistics; Language metaphor
Published: May 17, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/3/2022684
Volume: CHR Vol.3
pp. 1021-1026
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