Improved through the metaphor of the cultural awareness of Chinese learners of English.docVIP

Improved through the metaphor of the cultural awareness of Chinese learners of English Paper Keywords: metaphor; second language learners; cultural awareness Abstract: Metaphor is the language of a common and important phenomenon. A metaphorical use of language reflects this view of language users and explain how their coffee around the world, in large part by their culture decision. In this paper, the perspective of second language teaching, analysis and discussion of cultural factors on Chinese learners, and outputs the target language correctly understand the impact of metaphor, emphasizing language and culture are inseparable, and teach a second culture in second language teaching significance and necessity of metaphor can evoke the effective tool of the husband of awareness of language learners to improve their sensitivity to the husband of the difference. First, the metaphor in everyday language, the role of communication Metaphor is usually considered to refer to a thing other thing. Many people think that most reflects the metaphor of the poetic or rhetorical use of language characteristics, is a way out of the conventional use of language is discussed in literature class topic. We can even say without exaggeration that there is no metaphor, poetry can not be called poetry. a most commonly cited example is the English poet Robert Burns wrote “MY LOVE IS A RED ROSEo” in this sentence, “ my love “(my love) was more than made” a red rose0 (a red rose), means beauty, elegance and fragrance. However Lakeoff and Johnson pointed out that “metaphor is widely used in daily life, not only in the language, but also in thought and behavior.” They cited an example of “ARGUMENT IS WAR”, but also listed a number of everyday expressions as evidence. For example: Your claims are indefensible. He attacked every weak point in my argument. His criticisms were right on target. I demolished his argument. I’ve never won an argument with him. Yo