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. ㈣Y ㈣Y iiiii■■I ㈣9 蛐4 ㈣9 ㈣3 洲7， ㈣2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 would like to express my understanding to many people who have given me the support in this study． My greatest gratitude first goes to my supervisor,Prof．Yu Zechao，not only for his generous assistance and valuable suggestions on my study,but also for his constant encouragement and selfless help on my life．I anl deeply indebted to him both for the completion of my thesis and for the help he has given during my three—year study． Hearty thanks should be also given to Prof．Li Guicang，who inspired me on the study of Chinese American literature，Prof．Wu Benhu，who broadened my horizon on research methodology,and many other teachers who influenced me in my M．A．study． My friends Hu Yue and Lai Huiyun helped and encouraged me a lot during the three years In every respect．My roommates Zeng Hangli gave me a lot of suggestions and I also would like to thank them very much． Last but not least，1 would like to give my special thanks to my parents and my boyfriend，for their considerate understanding，inspiring love，great support and encouragement． 卜 Ⅳ 414i 414id--i 1l1fli-- 4 J月 ABSTRACTAs ABSTRACT As a pervasive rhetoric device，metaphor plays a very important role in literary works．The study on metaphor has a long history,most of which are carried out from the perspective of rhetoric and semantics．It is a new approach to interpret and study metaphors from the cognitive point of view．Conceptual Blending Theory(CBT)，a cognitive theory advanced by Gilles Fauconnier in 1 994，enables US to explore the dynamic processes involved in the mental interpretation of linguistie metaphors． With Conceptual Blending Theory as the theoretic framework，this research intends to explore metaphor in a more comprehensive and scientific way．Taking Shawn Wong’S Homebase as data，we collected the metaphorical constructions connected wim ethnic identity,and analyzed how these metaphorical images are created and shaped in the writer’S mind against a