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Frontiers in Educational Research, 2021, 4(5); doi: 10.25236/FER.2021.040510.

An Analysis of Conceptual Metaphor in Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Captain! From a Cognitive Perspective

Author(s)

Yang Linyan

Corresponding Author:
Yang Linyan
Affiliation(s)

Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 011517, China

Abstract

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.

Keywords

cognition; conceptual metaphor; O Captain! My Captain!

Cite This Paper

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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