Review of Metaphors We Live by

Metaphors We Live by was written by George Lakoff and Mark Johnsonin 198 0and published by The university of Chicago press.In this book,the authors come up with three categories of metaphor and conceptual metaphor,which are totally different with people's common opinion that metaphor is just a kind of figures of speech.This concept has made great distribution on academic research.It not only supply a new perspective to the study of metaphor,but also broaden a new research method to other disciplines.