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On the Universal and Cognitive Features of Metaphor

This paper is an attempt to study the universal and cognitive features of metaphor. The contents are explicated as follows: Metaphor is a universal linguistic phenomenon and a way of thought and cognition. Besides, it's a cognitive activity which explains or understands the experiences in another domain using the experiences in certain particular domain. In the meantime, the author has come to the conclusion that the approval between metaphor and cognition is helpful to the development of linguistics.