Cultural and Technical Metaphors

Cultural and technical metaphor introduces everyday conversation filled with figurative analogy. In most cases neither the speaker nor the audience has achieved it. In Merriam - Webster 's online dictionary, "a metaphor is defined as an image that literally expresses objects and ideas meaning words or phrases that replace other things and mean similarity or analogy. (Metaphor 1) Metaphor is a quick and easy way to associate messages without revealing unnecessary details.

As a student in China for many years, I have found myself searching for metaphor for expressing learning process. Metaphor - Well, in this case, it is technically similar - not only as a learning aid but also as a way to explain my experience to other people. One of the best analogies I suggested is that Chinese is multilingual. Studying it is like peeling off a big onion. The outer layer is where we learn to speak again. For those of us who native speakers are not tone, this means that we have to learn some of the babies and infants we learned. We need to think about the four tones of Mandarin (if you have a neutral tone there will be 5 tones, and if you handle Cantonese as other dialects, You have more). In addition, you need to train your ears and tongue to get the nuances between consonants of j and zh, q and ch, x and sh.

Metaphor Theory and Kovecses (2007) Metaphorical Dimensions - Intercultural and Cultural Internal Dimensions - Analytical methods for this research have been formed. As described in Kovecses (2007), intercultural dimensions include consistent metaphor and surrogate metaphor, as well as subcategories of social, regional, genre, subculture, and individual dimensions I will. In order not to be influenced by the specific personality of Dante, we decided to study Persian books and analyze it as the first step. Anthropomorphism of the first and second Masnavi books was collected and cataloged separately to keep track of the total frequency of each anthropomorphization in the corpus. (Please refer to Table 1 for the type and frequency of Rumi's 1st and 2nd books)