영어와 한국어 시 구절에 나타난 개념적 은유 비교 - 사랑 표현을 중심으로

Aspects in the use of metaphor related to love in English and Korean poetic phrases

&nbsp;&nbsp;Metaphor is a word or phrase that means one thing and is used for referring to another thing in order to emphasize their similar qualities. Metaphor operates concept-to-concept, and provides structures for our conceptual system and affects the ways in which we think about things.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Literary metaphors defamiliarize language, but we also use metaphors in everyday speech. Especially, many words expressing metaphor are often derived from expressions referring to the physical actions or entities in terms of an experiential basis. This paper has shown that the English examples related to love can be easily mapped into corresponding conceptual metaphors in Korean which is linguistically and culturally very remote. Accordingly, this fact indicates a high degree of similarity between English and Korean in the use of conceptual metaphorical expressions related to love.