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

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