A Study on the Application of Fauconnier's Space Mapping to Discourse Analysis

As one of the branches of cognitive science,cognitive linguistics provides a new researching method for researching and illustrating language phenomena.Using Fauconnier’s mental spaces theory and the space mappings theory,this paper explores the mapping problems in metaphor,metonymy and schema mappings of idealized cognitive models(ICM).Fauconnier’s space theory,as an important cognitive model,can help us understand those regular and irregular linguistic facts in our everyday communication,and provide a new cognitive model for the research of language phenomena.