tailieunhanh - Conceptual metaphors using english nautical expressions

This study was conducted to investigate metaphors relating to nautical expressions. Among a number of approaches, cognitive semantics introduced by Saeed (2005) is adopted in this study. Besides, the insight into metaphor in terms of image schemata mainly has its foundation from the theory of conceptual metaphors established by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). | VNU Journal of Foreign Studies 2019 59-74 59 CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS USING ENGLISH NAUTICAL EXPRESSIONS Ngo Thi Nhan Faculty of Foreign Studies Vietnam Maritime University 484 Lach Tray street Ngo Quyen district Hai Phong city Received 19 August 2019 Revised 28 October 2019 Accepted 22 December 2019 Abstract This study was conducted to investigate metaphors relating to nautical expressions. Among a number of approaches cognitive semantics introduced by Saeed 2005 is adopted in this study. Besides the insight into metaphor in terms of image schemata mainly has its foundation from the theory of conceptual metaphors established by Lakoff and Johnson 1980 .The sentences containing nautical expressions with their metaphorical meanings were collected from maritime newspapers magazines books websites etc. and analyzed in terms of image schemata by the quantitative qualitative analytic and descriptive methods. The findings reveal that the image schemata in nautical expression based metaphors are much diversediverse but uneven. Keywords conceptual metaphors nautical expressions image schemata 1. Introduction In the Metaphors We Live By 1980 8 Lakoff and Johnson confirmed metaphor is not the device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish or a matter of the extraordinary but a subject of ordinary language that is perceptions and understanding . Indeed thousands of metaphorically used words can be found in our everyday language which for some reason are not acknowledged of. Speakers of English seem to get so familiar with such expressions as the head of the state the key of the success the foot of the hill etc. that they hardly recognize the words head key and foot in the above examples are used metaphorically. Likewise the language of seafarers maritime economists maritime journalist etc. is filled with metaphors. Such metaphorical expressions as launch fit out and anchor in Tel. 84-983226880 Email the following examples launch a