Journal of Human Psychology
Open Access
How to Represent Abstract Concepts? From the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Dec 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2644-1101.jhp-20-3637
Yanli HuangCorresponding author
How human understand and represent concepts is always a hot topic in cognitive psychology. According to the conceptual metaphor theory 12, understanding and representing abstract concepts rely on concrete concepts via metaphoric mappings. In this review, we discussed three core issues with the aim t…