Title:
THE INFLUENCE OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR ON SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

Authors:
Xindan Shao, China

Abstract:
Nowadays, cognitive linguistics has become a major paradigm of linguistic research. As a linguistic phenomenon, conceptual metaphor is closely related to human thinking and cognition, and human metaphorical cognition is one of the most common and basic cognitive ways in the world. This paper takes the learning status of second language learners as the research object, and analyzes the influence of conceptual metaphor on the efficiency, learning effect, logic and hierarchy of thinking in second language acquisition from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Based on the example of conceptual metaphor transfer to language learning, this paper analyzes and explores the learning strategies and cognitive strategies of second language learners, and further explores the mode of second language thinking acquisition of learners, so as to better cultivate learners' second language acquisition ability and provide some inspirations for second language teaching.