Abstract
This study was conducted to discover the general metaphors of FEAR in English from the synchronic point of view. To find out metaphors of FEAR, the data was retrieved from COCA, extracting the token with key word FEAR. The retrieved data was analyzed in the light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and classified into the types of metaphors with the statistics such as the relative frequency (FPR) and he standard error (SE). With the comparison between FPR and SE in each metaphor, the general metaphors of FEAR can be found. As a result, the general metaphors of FEAR are as follows: FEAR IS A LOCATION, FEAR IS AN OBJECT, FEAR IS A CAUSE OF MOTION, FEAR IS OVERFLOW, FEAR IS A FLUID IN THE CONTAINER, FEAR IS PHYSICAL FORCE, FEAR IS COLDNESS, FEAR IS A LIVING ORGANISM, and FEAR IS OPPONENT.
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