A Multidimensional and Cross-spherical Study of Cognitive Metaphorology

This book aims to illustrate and explain the “Cognitive Metaphorology” from experiential and cultural perspectives and highlights two prominent features of cognitive metaphor: multidimensionality and cross-sphere application. This book demonstrates that embodied experience is the shared philosophical basis of commonalities underlying the similarities in these metaphors across Chinese and English; national and cultural factors  introduce variations in metaphors between the two languages. The different cultural aspects revealed through metaphors related to human body parts, emotions, senses, time, colors, and animals may appeal to academic readers interested in language studies or diverse cultures.

Introduction.- A Diachronic Overview of Traditional Metaphor Research.- Conceptual Metaphor Theory.- Conceptual Blending Theory.- Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Metaphorology: Embodied Philosophy.- the Cultural Connotation Dimension of Cognitive Metaphorology.- Body Metaphor – A Case Study of “Heart”.- Body Metaphor – A Case Study of “head”.- Emotion Metaphor.- Affect Metaphor – A Case Study of Love.- Synaesthesia Metaphor.- Time Metaphor.- Color Metaphor.- Animal Metaphors.- Idiomatic Metaphors.- Grammatical Metaphor.- Metonymy.- Metaphor and Foreign Language Teaching.- Metaphor and Translation.- Conclusion.

Yì Sun is a full professor and distinguished Yunshan scholar from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He serves the role as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Yì Sun has published over 100 academic papers in SSCI and CSSCI journals, including Brain Sci, Psychology in the Schools, Culture and Brain, Pragmatics and Society, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Metaphor and Symbol, Foreign Languages, Modern Foreign Languages, Foreign Language World, Chinese Foreign Languages, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, Foreign Language Education and Technology, and Foreign Language Teaching Theory and Practice