A Contrastive Study of Food Metaphor in Chinese and English Language
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surroundings. Based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory of Lakoff and Johnson, this paper compares and contrasts the food metaphors
existing in English and Chinese languages based on diff erent categories and four types of source-target domain relations, and then attempts
to conclude the similarities and diff erences between the food metaphors in both languages.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/modern-management-forum.v7i4.8030
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