The Coherent Function of Conceptual Metaphor in Political Address  

作　　者：郑洁[1] 

机构地区：[1]四川警察学院

出　　处：《英语广场（学术研究）》2012年第4期53-55,共3页English Square

摘　　要：Adopting Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory as theoretical framework and president Obama's State of the Union Address in 2011 as research corpus,the analysis is carried out from two perspectives to probe into the coherent function of metaphor:one is coherence constructed by a single conceptual metaphor,the other is coherence constructed by more than one conceptual metaphor.Adopting Lakoff Johnson＇s conceptual metaphor theory as theoretical framework and president Obama＇s State of the Union Address in 2011 as research corpus,the analysis is carried out from two perspectives to probe into the coherent function of metaphor：one is coherence constructed by a single conceptual metaphor,the other is coherence constructed by more than one conceptual metaphor.

关 键 词：conceptual metaphor mapping metaphorical entailment discourse coherence 

分 类 号：H0-0[语言文字—语言学]