Abstract
Education has been a vital human activity through which cultures are transmitted and human development is gained. Students are the object of education and play an irreplaceable role in this activity. How they are conceptualized or treated is a matter of whether education can be successful or not. Based on perceptual similarity, conceptual metaphor about students can reveal educators’ attitudes toward students. This paper will be devoted to the conception of students in Chinese tradition from the perspective of conceptual metaphors. Five major conceptual metaphors in Chinese Classics: STUDENTS ARE WOOD, STUDENTS ARE WATER, STUDENTS ARE METAL, STUDENTS ARE JADE and STUDETNS ARE EARTH, will be examined. Chinese cultural specificity revealed and particular traditional Chinese educational concepts conveyed by these conceptual metaphors will also be presented in the process of investigation.
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