Cognitive foundation of metaphorial meaning "happiness" of idioms in English and Vietnamese

  • TRẦN THỊ THÙY OANH

Abstract

    Metaphor has been studied simultaneously with the development of cognitive linguistics called conceptual metaphor or cognitive metaphor since 1980. Accordingly, metaphor is a conceptual phenomenon and a natural process of thinking, helps people better understand the concepts and is used naturally in the daily lives of human, is a bridge to help people take conventional knowledge and eiqwrience in die process of decoding the meaning of idioms. The paper studies the cognitive foundation of metaphorial meaning of idioms "happiness" based on comparative results in English and Vietnamese. 

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Published
2017-10-12
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