根據歷史文獻研究，譬喻是一個常見的機制，而人類能夠透過此機制了解模糊的想法或是抽象的概念 (Lakoff, 1987; Lakoff, 1993; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980)。流行歌詞被認為是詩詞與日常語言間的媒介，將其與譬喻放在一起看待，必然會建立出一些有趣的特色。歌詞中複雜的抽象概念能夠讓聽者明白並了解其意涵，所運用的譬喻和我們的日常生活息息相關。聽者對於歌曲以及歌詞的感受和想法在接收的當下就被觸發，因此，上述兩項特色都能輕易地被證明。W. C. Chang (2008) 的研究發現了許多相關特色。有關愛情譬喻的特色，其歸納方式會因著不同的個人經驗有所差異；甚至不同的語言及其語言使用方式也會引導出分歧的想法概念。本篇論文檢驗了兩種語言，中文以及英文，其歌詞中對於愛情譬喻所展現出相同及相異的表現狀況。語料的選擇為明顯及無異議的愛情譬喻，以避免過多偏頗的個人意念使愛情譬喻的解讀有過大的差異。在不同語言使用的背景之下，愛情譬喻的表現方式有著不同面貌的呈現。

Metaphor, according to the literature, is a common mechanism for us to get vague ideas or abstract concepts (Lakoff, 1987; Lakoff, 1993; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). When popular songs, which are considered as the medium between poetry and our daily language, and metaphor are mentioned together, there are supposed to be some specific characteristics constructed. For example, complex abstract concepts expressed in songs can somehow be processed and understood by the listeners and, the metaphors expressed in songs are tightly and closely related to our daily life. The aforementioned two characteristics can be proven easily since the common feelings and thoughts of people are triggered when songs are played and lyrics are sung. Actually, there are some features that have already been discovered in previous studies (W. C. Chang, 2008). However, the most important but divergent idea of love metaphors can lay in the lyrics of different languages. In this paper, some lyrics talking about love from two languages, Mandarin and English, are chosen in order to examine the similarities and differences of expression through love metaphors in different languages. Lyrics with obvious and unquestionable love metaphors are selected to avoid individual experience that might vary the interpretation of the love metaphors. Different background of language use leads to divergent expression of love metaphors.

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