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毕业论文（设计）文献综述 题目：英语水果隐喻的习得研究 Study on the Acquisition of English Fruit Metaphor 学院专 业班 级学 号学生姓名指导教师Study on the Acquisition of English Fruit Metaphor Abstract: Guided by theories of metaphor and cognitive psychology, this paper goes to examine L2 learners’ understanding process of the English fruit metaphor through a survey. It aims to explore English learners’ cognitive styles in understanding metaphors, and help them master English words efficiently with the help of effective teaching method. Besides, it is also helpful to improve English learners’ metaphorical awareness and plays a significant role in instructing English learners words and idioms acquisition. Lastly, it provides an effective supplement to the current researches on metaphorical acquisition. Key words: fruit metaphor; cognitive style; acquisition Literature Review Metaphor is a kind of complicated language as well as thinking phenomenon. From ancient time, many theorists from China and West have explained it from different perspectives and have proposed various metaphorical theories. From the 1990s, the British scholars Cameron and Low co-authored an proceeding “Researching and Applying Metaphor” which signified that metaphorical research had already involved into a stage featuring application and scholars began to focus on the connection between metaphor and language acquisition. Currently, researches on relations between metaphor and language acquisition focused more on the relations between metaphor and lexicon acquisition which have made a great number of achievements. However, few researches have been done aiming to examine the fruit metaphor. Metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon based on correlations and similarities of things so as to form a metaphorical mapping between one conceptual domain and another. This function of metaphor provides a means to expand and create word meaning. Therefore, the promotion of me