CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS FOR PHYSICAL BEAUTY IN VIETNAMESE

  • Lê Lâm Thi
Keywords: appearance, beauty, concept, metaphor, Vietnamese

Abstract

In recent years, research on conceptual metaphors has attracted so much attention
and there have been many research works on conceptual metaphors. However, most of them
come from the concept of the source domain (animal, plant, water, fire, human body,
feeling...), not many works come from the concept of target domains to reset the mappings.
Furthermore, in the study of conceptual metaphors, it is found that human category is a very
common target domain in conceptual metaphors. The research has so far focused only on
the human aspects of psychological emotions and senses. There is no independent research
on the metaphorical mapping from the different source domains to the target domain of
human appearance. The purpose of this article is to deepen the analysis of mapping in
conceptual metaphors from different source domains to the target domain of human
appearance beauty.

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Published
2020-08-17