A Study of Female Metaphors in TV’s Blossoms Shanghai

Abstract

Taking Conceptual Metaphor as a theoretical framework, this paper analyzes the metaphorical expressions about women’s image in TV’s Blossoms Shanghai from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, organizes and analyzes them, and classifi es them into three categories, namely, Shanghai Regional Culture, Shanghai Japanese Culture, and Hong Kong Style Culture. It aims at exploring the shaping of women’s image in Blossoms Shanghai, and peeks into the changes of Chinese women’s consciousness in the context of the reform and opening-up era by taking into consideration the relationship among metaphor, history, and culture. In addition, readers can also understand the characteristics of the conceptual metaphors of women, their social status and personal values in the special historical context of that time, which is also an important revelation for the development of women in our contemporary society.