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Phenomenon Caused by Conceptual Difference
Till now, Chinglish has been defined by many scholars and from various perspectives. LiWenzhong defines Chinglish as a “deformed English expression produced by Chinese people,which stems from violating general English rules, being unaware of the English culture andconventions, and imposing rules of Chinese language on their English speaking and writing”.(Li, 1993:19) According to Deng Yanchang's definition. Chinglish may be grammaticallycorrect and understandable but are totally unacceptable because of its inconformity tonormative English in terms of word choice and manner of expression. (Deng, 1989: 150) Inthis thesis, the author will start with Danesi's description about English output from secondlanguage learners: “To put it another way, students ‘speak’ with the formal structures of thetarget language, but they ‘think’ in terms of their native conceptual system; i.e., studentstypically use target language words and structures as 'carriers' of their own native languageconcepts.” (Danesi, 1995:5)Though it refers not specifically to Chinglish, the form of language output is exactly thedescription of Chinglish from cognitive perspective: Danesi's statement points out theessence of Chinglish—using English language words and structures as 'carriers' for learners,Chinese concepts.
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2.2. Conceptual Metaphor

2.2.1 Definition of Conceptual Metaphor
The publication of Metaphor We Live By marked the cognitive turn of metaphor study fromviewing it as a rhetorical tool to considering metaphor as integral to the structuring of ourthought and language. (Lakoflf and Johnson，1980) We tend to understand one idea, orconceptual domain, in terms of another, for example，understanding love in t^ms of journey.The cross-domain mapping between love and journey is metaphorical，and such mapping isfound pervasive in language and shaping the way of our thinking.As Lakoff and Johnson elaborated，metaphor forms a mapping (projection) based on anabstract schema, from the familiar, concrete and comprehensible source domain to theunfamiliar, abstract, and incomprehensible target domain (Lakoff, 1980: 6) According toKovecses, "the conceptual domain from which we draw metaphorical expressions tounderstand another conceptual domain is called source domain, while the conceptual domainthat is understood this way is the target domain. Thus，life，arguments, loves，theory, ideas,social organizations, and others are target domains, while journeys, war, buildings, food,plants, and others are source domains. The target domain is the domain that we try tounderstand through the use of the source domain.(Kovecses, 2002: 37)
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Chapter Three Procedure of Chinglish Analysis through........ 13
3.1 Cross-linguistic Comparison of Metaphor........ 13
3.2 Data Description ........14
3.3 Procedure for Chinglish Analysis and Correction........ 16
3.4 Principles for the Analysis ........17
3.5 Results Analysis........ 18
Chapter Four Analysis and Correction of Chinglish........ 20
4.1 Conceptual Difference on Human Body........ 20
4.1.1 Mouth, Lips, and Tongue........ 20
4.1.2 Blood ........  23
4.1.3 Head and Toe........       24
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