情感隐喻在语言中具有重要地位,它影响着人们的思维方式,体现人们所居住的世界的文化模式。认知语言学领域的研究者对英、汉语情感隐喻作了大量的研究,取得了一系列的成果。随着体验哲学的发展和具身认知的兴起,心理学家也从实证的角度对情感隐喻尝试进行了研究。对情感隐喻的研究或是通往了解人的内心感情世界的一把钥匙。 Emotional metaphor has an important position in the language, which affects people’s way of thinking and embodies the cultural model of the world in which people live. Researchers in the field of cognitive linguistics have done a lot of research on English and Chinese emotional metaphors and made a series of achievements. With the development of experiential philosophy and the rise of personal cognition, psychologists have also studied emotional metaphors from an empirical point of view. Research on emotional metaphors is a key to understanding the world of human beings.