Abstract
The paper examines the structural metaphors in English and Vietnamese football commentaries based on the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). The paper uses the contrastive analysis of metaphors with respect to their their usage, mapping mechanism and linguistic realizations. The data were collected from four English newspapers and four Vietnamese ones with 182 samples, 107 tokens in English and 75 in Vietnamese randomly chosen. The method employed to identify metaphorical linguistic expressions in the data sources is MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure) developed by Pragglejaz Group (2007). The findings reveal that English and Vietnamese each shares 50% of subcategories of structural metaphors in common and their own ones in the types of source domains and the structuralized concepts in the target domain and the linguistic realizations. Implication for English learning and teaching are also proposed.
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