This paper is proposed to analyze the meanings and functions of the Chinese particle “le” with im...

This study aims to examine whether conceptual metaphors facilitate Chinese vocabulary learning or...

The present study aims to explore the metaphorical mechanism, cultural imagery, and different usa...

This paper examines the kinds of language patterns that compose educational metaphors in modern M...

The term “antonym” refers to a pair of words with opposite meanings. It is commonly believed that...

In recent years the linguistic relativity theory has experienced a revival, and although the stro...

When people and animals get along for a long time, animal-based expressions will naturally appear...

This dissertation undertakes a study of near-synonymous verbs of downward motion in Mandarin Chin...

Metaphor exists in many language forms. However, when the meaning of a word is not in literal se...

This thesis examines three categories of metaphors used by the Chinese representative in internat...