Research on Cognitive Method of Synesthetic Metaphors

Yanfang Yu

Shandong University of Technology

Abstract: Synesthesia is a very special cognitive phenomenon, reflected in the chain reactions from one sensory domain to another ｏｒ other sensory domains. The study of synesthesia can be incorporated into a framework of cognitive linguistics, especially the theory of conceptual metaphor. This article mainly discusses some of the existing problems in treating synesthesia as a kind of metaphorical mapping.

Keywords: synesthesia; synesthetic metaphor; conceptual metaphor theory; mapping