ẨN DỤ Ý NIỆM “XANH” TRONG TIẾNG VIỆT

Abstract

From the perspectives of cognitive linguistics, metaphor is considered one of the forms of conceptual thinking, reflecting the ways of thinking and conceptualizing people around the world through linguistic expressions, a cognitive mechanism through which the logic of abstract concepts is replaced by the logic of more specific concepts. Within the context of this scientific paper, we turn our attention to the conceptual metaphor of “color” in which blue is used as a source of concepts associated with the various target domains in the Vietnamese linguistics.

Key words: conceptual metaphor, language expressions, blue, source domain, target domain