Ahrens, KathleenKathleenAhrensDr. ZENG Huiheng, WinnieWinnieDr. ZENG Huiheng2023-09-272023-09-272021In Peters, P. & Burridge, K. (Eds.). (2021). Exploring the ecologies of world Englishes in the twenty-first century: Language, society and culture (pp. 170-192).United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.9781474462860978147446285397814744628849781474462877http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/8030Conceptual Metaphor Theory postulates that metaphors are a cognitive phenomenon (Lakoff and Johnson [1980] 2003; Lakoff 1993), one that is instantiated in language, but with conceptual underpinnings. Conceptual metaphors link two conceptual domains: a source domain and a target domain, where a conceptual domain is a set of entities, qualities and functions that are semantically linked (Ahrens 2010). The source domain usually consists of a concrete concept, such as money, while the target domain involves an abstract concept, such as time.¹ For example, if people want to talk about time, they can use the source domain of money to do...enBook Chapter