The Working Mechanism of Conceptual Blending Theory in Metaphor Understanding

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10.2991/assehr.k.210313.018How to use a DOI?

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conceptual blending theory, metaphors, Mao Zedong’s poems

Abstract

Cognitive linguistics is an approach to language that is based on people’s experience of the world and the way people perceive and conceptualize it. Metaphors abound in Mao Zedong’s poems. These frequent and substantive metaphors play an important role in expressing the theme of the poetry. The author of this paper attempts to study the metaphors in Mao’s poems from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, especially from the conceptual blending theory, on the premise of understanding metaphors comprehensively, and testifies the conceptual blending theory’s explanatory power in cognitive linguistics.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhao Zhuang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/15
TI  - The Working Mechanism of Conceptual Blending Theory in Metaphor Understanding
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 94
EP  - 96
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210313.018
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210313.018
ID  - Zhuang2021
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