This thesis studies the Conceptual Metaphor of Dog idioms and proverbs between Vietnamese and English the framework theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980/2003) Kovesces (2002). Who also claimed that Dog is an abstract concept which is often understood via co

In this study, life metaphors in contemporary British novels are examined conceptually in the framework theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980/2003), Kovecses (2002). The structural and ontological metaphors used in the thesis will be examined to determine ho

The title of my thesis is Conceptual metaphors of love in lyrics by Bee Gees. The study is carried out with a view to pointing out conceptual metaphors of love in lyrics by Bee Gees. In the thesis, structural and ontological metaphors are specially analyz

Metaphor has been studied for a long time by many linguists. For traditional schools of linguistics, metaphor is merely a figure of speech used in literature. However, cognitive linguistics presents a different view of metaphor stating that metaphor is no

The thesis is designed to investigate into the use of verbs of motion in emotion metaphors. The sixteen verbs studied are; climb, crawl, dive, float, fly, go, hop, jump, leap, plunge, roll, run, stagger, swim, tiptoe and walk. Verbs of motion are often us