Economic activities are closely linked with people's daily lives. But for ordinary people, economic operations and development are abstract. Conceptual metaphors can make abstract concepts concrete in order to deepen people's understanding. In virtue of Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphors Theory, this paper extracts a large number of conceptual metaphorical expressions from 86 articles related to economy and trade, and uses AntConc 3.2.1 and SPSS 13.0 software to do data analyses. Then, from the cognitive angle, it compares the similarities and differences of conceptual metaphors used in English and Chinese economic and trade languages. It can test and verify, based on cross linguistic and cross cultural analyses, some judgments on conceptual metaphors put forward by other researchers.
CHEN Linhai, AN Xiaocan
. A Contrastive Study of Conceptual Metaphors in English and Chinese Economic and Trade Languages[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2016
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DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.001
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