关键词: 热, 概念隐喻, 体验, 认知, 对比分析

Abstract: The experience of temperature is a basic and important human embodiment of the external environment. It plays a critical role in the process of constructing our abstract concepts. This article compares and analyses the metaphorical scope of the concept of “hot” in English and Chinese from the embodied cognitive perspective. It is discovered that the metaphorical mappings of “hot” in both English and Chinese are characterized by similarities and differences. Both of English and Chinese people make a full use of the concrete concept of “hot” in understanding and extending abstract concepts,on the basis of their experience and interactions with “hot” in the environment.