Metaphor is a universal phenomenon. Tradition-ally metaphor is seen as as a means of rhetoric, but now it is seen as a cognitive phenomenon. In our life most of the everyday language is metaphor, our mind is also the metaphor. Metaphor has become an indispensable tool for understanding the world. There are a lot of“building”metaphorical expressions in life, as construction is an important component of people’s lives. But the studies of building metaphors have not been systematic and comprehensive. This thesis gives a contrastive study of building metaphors to deepen people’s understanding of building metaphors and enrich the cognitive studies of metaphor.
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