A Corpus based Comparative Analysis of English and Chinese Emotional Metaphors

Abstract

Metaphor belongs to a linguistic phenomenon and also reflects a cognitive style. Emotional metaphor is an important part of metaphorical expression. Emotion is the way of reaction to the outside world, which is universal and also untouchable. In life, people often combine image language to express abstract emotions. With the formation of corpus, metaphor research has gained new research methods and perspectives. Combined with the corpus, we can carry out research work such as verification of language hypothesis, basic development and language theory. The contrastive analysis of English and Chinese emotional metaphors combined with corpus can realize the research on the specific formation mechanism of emotional metaphors in the context of differences between English and Chinese.