Research on Metaphorical Approach in Economic Vocabulary Teaching

Youwen YANG

Abstract


This paper based on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) aims at exploring the classification and organization of inflation-related metaphors. We have three findings: firstly, orientational metaphors and structural metaphors are the main groups, compared with ontological metaphors; secondly, these source domains tend to share similarities, though different from each other; thirdly, INFLATION IS ENEMY is the dominant classification. The metaphorical exploring may provide an efficient approach with economic vocabulary teaching and learning.


Keywords


Metaphorical approach; Classification and organization; Economic vocabulary teaching

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

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