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【Abstract】Metaphors We Live by was written by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in 1980 and published by The university of Chicago press. In this book， the authors come up with three categories of metaphor and conceptual metaphor， which are totally different with people’s common opinion that metaphor is just a kind of figures of speech. This concept has made great distribution on academic research. It not only supply a new perspective to the study of metaphor， but also broaden a new research method to other disciplines.
【Key words】Metaphor We Live by； conceptual metaphor； contribution
1. Introduction
Metaphors We Live by was written by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in 1980 and published by The university of Chicago press.
In Western world， the research of metaphor has long history. Aristotle has studied not only the rhetorical function but cognition function of metaphor. In people’s ordinary concept， metaphor is one of figures of speech and it is a problem of expression. However， George Lakoff and Mark Johnson put forward a new concept—conceptual metaphor or metaphorical concept， which supplies a new perspective to understand human language and the world. In their work Metaphors We Live by， Lakoff and Johnson think that most of our ordinary conceptual system is metaphorical in nature， metaphor exists in our language， thinking and action and the essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. This concepts has made great contribution in many fields as well. It is necessary to make a review to the content of this book and the research on its contribution in order to get a comprehensive understanding to conceptual metaphor.
2. Content Review
2.1 Content Structure
This book has 30 chapters and they can be separates to three parts. Chapter 1 to chapter 10 is the first part which introduces the fund mental opinions of metaphorical concept and three kinds of metaphor. Chapter 11 to chapter 19 is the second part， the features of conceptual metaphor are discussed in this part. Chapter 20 to chapter 30 is the third part， in this part， the effects of conceptual metaphor are introduced.
2.2 Three categories on metaphor
According to Lakoff
【Key words】Metaphor We Live by； conceptual metaphor； contribution
1. Introduction
Metaphors We Live by was written by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in 1980 and published by The university of Chicago press.
In Western world， the research of metaphor has long history. Aristotle has studied not only the rhetorical function but cognition function of metaphor. In people’s ordinary concept， metaphor is one of figures of speech and it is a problem of expression. However， George Lakoff and Mark Johnson put forward a new concept—conceptual metaphor or metaphorical concept， which supplies a new perspective to understand human language and the world. In their work Metaphors We Live by， Lakoff and Johnson think that most of our ordinary conceptual system is metaphorical in nature， metaphor exists in our language， thinking and action and the essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. This concepts has made great contribution in many fields as well. It is necessary to make a review to the content of this book and the research on its contribution in order to get a comprehensive understanding to conceptual metaphor.
2. Content Review
2.1 Content Structure
This book has 30 chapters and they can be separates to three parts. Chapter 1 to chapter 10 is the first part which introduces the fund mental opinions of metaphorical concept and three kinds of metaphor. Chapter 11 to chapter 19 is the second part， the features of conceptual metaphor are discussed in this part. Chapter 20 to chapter 30 is the third part， in this part， the effects of conceptual metaphor are introduced.
2.2 Three categories on metaphor
According to Lakoff