Abstract
Metaphor is a universal phenomenon,the traditional metaphor studies it as a means of rhetoric,but metaphor of modern sees it as a cognitive phenomenon.In our life most of the everyday language is metaphor,our mind is also the metaphor.Meta-phor has become an indispensable tool for understanding the world.There are a lot of “building”metaphorical expressions in the life, construction is an important component of people’s lives. K?vecses (2002)discussed briefly some conceptual metaphors of the construction in English,Deignan (2001)make a compre-hensive study on building metaphors which underlie some metaphor expression of “building and construction”.Lan Chun (2003)only referred to “theory is building”,but the concept of “life,relationships”can be understood through building concept,these relative ab-stract concepts can be understood by clear concrete building concept.Hence the studies of building metaphors have not been systematic and comprehensive,people seldom study it.We plan to give a contrastive study of building metaphors.This will further deepen peo-ple’s understanding of building metaphors and enrich the cognitive studies of metaphor.
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