This paper talks about the relationship between conceptual metaphor and semantic motivation of English and Chinese idioms from three aspects, namely, structural metaphor, orientation metaphor and ontological metaphor. Based on that, the author puts forward applying conceptual metaphor theory to English and Chinese idiom teaching.

Abstract: This paper discusses the processing of topic meaning in metaphor comprehension, which consists not only of the acceptance of metaphor-relevant meaning but also the rejection of metaphor-irrelevant meaning. Our study examined the rejection process of topic word (e.g., “lawyer”) that include an irrelevant meaning (e.g., “helps people”) in metaphor comprehension (e.g., “a lawyer is like ...

Sense extension, speci cally as required in the generation of metaphor, presents a problem for formalization of a linguistic domain as it requires dynamic interpretation of predicates. We extend a classical model of formalisation to incorporate generation of metaphor. This involves complicating I, the interpretation function, by threading it through each clause where it could potentially be ext...

This study represents an exploration of the phenomenon of non-literal language ("metaphors") and an approach that lends itself to computational modeling. Ortony's theories of the way in which salience and asymmetry function in human metaphor processing are explored and expanded on the basis of numerous examples. A number of factors appear to be interacting in the metaphor comprehension process....