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短语动词认知隐喻研究 　　中图分类号：H31 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1008-925X(2012)06-0222-02 　　Abstract：Nowadays, learning phrasal verbs is very difficult for English learners. Using conceptual metaphorical theory to cope with phrasal verbs can be an easier option for English learners. This paper will introduce the way of conceptual metaphor to understand and analyze phrasal verbs. 　　Key words:particles; phrasal verbs；conceptual metaphor 　　1. Introduction 　　This paper is going to discuss phrasal verbs based on the conceptual metaphorical theory. Phrasal verbs are difficult for English learners to understand and use, but analyzing phrasal verbs by the way of conceptual metaphorical theory can be more easily to deal with. 　　2. Conceptual metaphor 　　2.1 Introduction of metaphor 　　Metaphor has got different understandings from different perspectives. Because the traditional opinions about metaphors are out of date and not very proper, this paper will present metaphors from the cognitive perspective. 　　2.1.1 Traditional point of view on metaphor 　　In Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines metaphor as “The use of a word or phrase to mean something different from the literal meaning.” Take the case of the foot of the mountain, the word foot is the so called vehicle, while the tenor is something like “lower portion,” and the ground is the spatial parallel between the two relations. 　　2.1.2 Lakoff Johnsen and conceptual metaphor 　　In Metaphors We Live By (1980), Lakoff and Johnsen have made three significant claims about metaphor. Metaphor exists in ordinary languages and it cannot be considered as a mere figure of speech, a way of rhetoric, confined to certain literary types. 　　2.2 Conceptual metaphor theory 　　Since Lakoff and Johnsen pointed out the nature of metaphor, a mapping relation between two domains got people’s attention. One is the source domain which corresponds to the traditional notion of the metaphor vehicle, while the other one is the target domain that is equivalent to the tradi