of all Thai and Chinese language users on “HEART” could be considered as a cognitive procedure of metaphorical concept construction. The concept of “HEART” is regarded as one's understanding of physical objects or valuable entities. It makes “HEART

The Journey Metaphor, as a type of metaphor, is frequently employed in political discourse, namely, politicians usually selected words and expressions from one semantic domain “Journey” to describe politics that, to some extent, as an abstract... concept. This article aims to investigate “CHINESE DREAM IS A JOURNEY” conceptual metaphor to help people understand the abstract concept “CHINESE DREAM” in terms of a more concrete concept “JOURNEY” from the perspective of cognitive linguistics within

Conceptual Integration Theory, as a new theory in the field of cognitive linguistics, provides an enlightening way of thinking for human understanding of its cognitive mechanism from the perspective of mental space and conceptual integration.... Such theory of conceptual blending is not only a basic dynamic cognitive construction process of human beings, but also an important cognitive way for human beings to understand the world and form innovative thinking, especially emphasize the viewpoint

The purpose of this research paper is to study and analyse the “HEART” metaphors in Mandarin Chinese, especially those used in conjunction with words for other body parts, by applying cognitive linguistics theories related to conceptual metaphors... and personalities. The metaphorical process of “HEART” in Chinese involves a conceptual blending process of mental spaces, which begins from two input spaces and relies on the important shared semantic properties of the generic space to be selectively projected

of China. A semantic analysis was made of the linguistic data of this phrase associated with Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.... Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), within the field of cognitive linguistics, as investigated by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980), as well as Zoltán Kövecses (2002; 2005), provided the background framework for this article. Data was obtained from three