A cognitive study of the metaphor theories and English vocabulary teaching
LI Zuo-wen
Abstract
LI Zuo-wen
Abstract
Metaphor serves not only as a rhetorical device,but as a way of thinking,and a significant cognitive tool.Being a bridge between cognition and language,metaphor plays a key role in vocabulary learning.So the writers attempts to account for the metaphor theories in the English vocabulary teaching.
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Metaphor serves not only as a rhetorical device,but as a way of thinking,and a significant cognitive tool.Being a bridge between cognition and language,metaphor plays a key role in vocabulary learning.So the writers attempts to account for the metaphor theories in the English vocabulary teaching.
Key concepts: Metaphor, Vocabulary, Rhetorical question, Cognition, Linguistics, Rhetorical device, Key (lock), Bridge (graph theory)