%0 Journal Article
%T A Cognitive Research on Hand Metaphors in English
%A Ming Zhang
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 8
%N 5
%P 1-10
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2021
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1107436
%X In the past years, metaphor was mostly confined to literature and rhetoric as a figure of speech while resent metaphor study has a more extended scope. Especially over the past thirty years, cognitive linguists and their theories have brought much impact on the research of the relationship between metaphor and human thoughts: metaphor is a way of conceiving, our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. A large part of the way we speak in our daily life derives from the way we speak about our body-part terms. This paper collects Hand expressions in English for a purpose of understanding the working mechanism of body metaphors. This is also an elaborating try for the relationships among metaphor, body and language by means of self-examination and data support, all with great hopes to contribute to metaphor research and language acquisition.
%K Cognitive Research
%K Hand
%K Metaphor
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/6756020