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l Mapping of LOVE in English andChinese songs.....27
5.2 The Differences of LOVE Metaphor in English and ChineseSongs....40
5.3 The Cultural Connotations Reflected in English and ChineseLOVE Metaphors......46

Chapter Five Contrastive Analysis of LOVE Metaphor inEnglish and Chinese Songs

5.1 The Similar Metaphorical Mapping of LOVE in English andChinese songs

The basic viewpoint of Lakoff on Metaphor Mapping Theory is to use theconcrete things to map the abstract things. Therefore “Love as the abstract conceptcan be visualized through the use of same things” (Zhang Huizhi, 2010). The formerfindings of this study showed that there are concrete things existing in both Englishand Chinese such as the journey, war, plants, fire, liquids and other conceptualdomains to express love. These concrete concepts constitute the source domain. Thefollowing part states the similar metaphor mappings in English and Chinese songs oneby one.There is an important 'Love' conceptual metaphor in English. That is 'LOVE ISA JOURNEY'. This is also provided by K?vecses (2010). between Love and journey,there are some similarities. In early literature period, journey is regarded as a kind ofmetaphor with life vicissitudes, the ups and downs in people’s whole lifetime.Traveling is to enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way, and a person can travelalone as well as go together with other people, three or more people. So in love,before meeting the right person, it is a single trip; after meeting the right person, theycan walk beside each other in joy and sadness. It is clear that journey is a kind ofsource domain, and love is the corresponding target domain, the abstract concept oflove can be digest through a variety of specific concepts happened in the journey.

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Conclusion

Based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory meanwhile with a lot of corpus analysis,consolidation and detailed discussion from the perspective of cross-culture. This partis nearly to the end of the thesis. This part mainly from three aspects to review,summary and outlook: the major findings of this thesis, the innovation of this thesis,Limitation of this research.This thesis is based on Cognitive Research of LOVE metaphor in English andChinese love songs, we draw the following conclusions: It is apparent that there areboth similarities and respective characteristics in the construction of LOVEMetaphors in English and Chinese languages.
(1) Metaphor plays a very important role on the understanding of abstract thingsand objective world. English and Chinese languages both use concrete or tangiblethings to metaphor the abstract love concept, and people also use abstract or invisibleobject to metaphor abstract love concept, but there are some similarities between theconcrete things and abstract things. This is due to common cognitive models andcommon experience of human. The formation of metaphor theory which based onhuman experience is also testified.
(2) Culture has profound impact on the formation of the love metaphor. Everyhuman experience takes place in a specific cultural background and cultural patterns.Thus, there are a large amount of cultural characteristics existing in metaphor, twolanguages produce their own distinctive Conceptual Metaphors due to the limitationof their cultures, and different cultural relativism leads to the different concepts ofmetaphor in differen