Comparisons between Chinese and English metaphorical metal words
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Metaphor, Metal Words, Comparisons between Chinese and English, Statistic AnalysisAbstract
Abundant amount of Metaphorical Metal Words can be observed in both Chinese and English, which are well-developed and widely used, ready for comparisons. We applied to simple statistic analysis as our main research method in revealing structural and semantic characters, referring to coagulation, internal structure, and property for the former, and through the way senses being scattered in dictionaries, the part bearing metaphorical meanings and the concentration of meanings for the latter. Through analysis, we discover that astonishing similarities exist in both languages and similarities outweigh differences, which is an overall symptom concerning all comparisons held, revealing human cognitive collectiveness to a certain extent. But in more specific regions, differences do appear, reflecting the varieties in mankind.
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