Frontiers in Educational Research, 2021, 4(5); doi: 10.25236/FER.2021.040510.
Yang Linyan
Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 011517, China
From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this paper takes the image of "captain" in Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Maptain! as the research object, and analyzes the source domain, target domain and their mapping relationship in the poem, aiming to deeply understand the definition and application of conceptual metaphor, and help better understand the poem.
cognition; conceptual metaphor; O Captain! My Captain!
Yang Linyan. An Analysis of Conceptual Metaphor in Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Captain! From a Cognitive Perspective. Frontiers in Educational Research (2021) Vol. 4, Issue 5: 34-37. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2021.040510.
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