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Metaphor is a powerful linguistic device for musicians to write love songs. Through love songs, metaphor is understood and studied more interestingly and effectively. The paper identified distinctive linguistic features of metaphors as well as interpreted the metaphorical images of love in the songs. The data for analysis are the samples randomly taken from English love songs in the late 20th century. There are 68 songs used with 80 verses included in the corpus for analysis. All the collected data were qualitatively and quantitatively processed. In this paper, the metaphorical images in the songs were classified into three different kinds, namely structural metaphors, ontological metaphor, and orientational metaphors, of which the number of structural one ranks the first. The writer analyzed 46 structural metaphors to find out conceptual meaning transference from the vehicles to the tenors from cognitive perspectives and the rhetorical value distributed to songs from stylistic perspectives. Finally, the implication for learning, teaching and translating metaphor was presented.
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References
Baars, B. J. (1998), Metaphors of consciousness TINS Vol. 21, No. 2.
Barcelona (2000:3), Introduction. The cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy, Berlin and New York: Moutoii de Gruyter.
Jakobson (2003), Two aspects of language and two types of Aphasic. Fundamentals of language. 2nd ed., rev. The Hague: Mouton,
Lakoff, George, Johnson M. (1980), Metaphors We Live By.University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, George, Turner, Mark (1989), More Than Cool Reason: A field Guide To Poetic Metaphor. University of Chicago Press. Merwin, W. S 1973
Lakoff, George (1993), The contemporary theory of metaphor. In A. Ortony (Ed.) Metaphor and Thought. (pp. 202-251) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Patrick Hogan (2010), The-Cambridge-Encyclopedia-Language-Sciences: Word meaning, University of Brighton
Yang. A. (2008) Holographic Study of Metaphors Concerning Love in Chinese. Renying Yang, North China University
C?, T. V. (2011), Nh?ng khái ni?m Ngôn ng? h?c tri nh?n liên quan ??n V?n hoá h?c (p4), Culture and information press
Dao , L. T. H. (2012), The translation of Metaphor in English newspaper article, Da Nang University
Linh, L. T. T (2011), metaphor of “love is fire” in English and Vietnamese, HCM education university
Quang, V. ? (2005), Semantics (ng? ngh?a h?c), Culture and information press.