Abstract
Metaphor in the cognitive linguistic view means a way of understanding relatively abstract concepts in terms of concrete ones. Conceptual metaphor plays an important role in human conceptualization. It guides perceptions, structuralize experience and create new insight. We takes The Book of Tao and Teh as an example to illustrate how conceptual metaphors function at discoursal level because Lao Tzu’s brilliant ideas, so impressive and wonderful, are often said to mark the peak of classical Chinese philosophy. Conceptual metaphor can account for the cohesion of the discourse and metaphorical expressions, especially lexis, are cohesive tokens to achieve explicit coherence in texts. And we confirm the hypothesis that conceptual metaphor in discourse can help to guarantee textual cohesion and coherence. The systematicity and coherence of metaphor is of great importance to discourse construction.
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