An Analysis of Cultural Metaphors in Translation from a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

Metaphor has been studied for centuries, but traditionally it confined to the field of rhetoric, and seen as a rhetorical method. However, with development modern society advancement cognitive linguistics, some linguistics researchers believe that metaphor is no longer just linguistic phenomenon, also mode thinking. The conceptual system contains rich sufficient cultural information, which makes activity very complex translation metaphors extremely difficult. Therefore, although many Chinese scholars are keen on study theories Western metaphor, few them have applied in practice, led lack guiding principles metaphor.