A Brief Analysis of Metaphorical Semantic Shift of Animal Terms in English
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Metaphor is one of the most important means of semantic shift.Animal terms possess the function of metaphorical semantic shift because of animals' distinctive characteristics. The paper analyses the conditions of metaphorical semantic shift of animal terms, expounds the types of the shift from the angle of semantic meaning,and then points out the particularly typical functions of animal terms resulted from metaphorical semantic shift.