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Without a doubt, music is a necessity. Since the early years of mankind up to now, it is impossible to deny that music has contributed significantly to human life especially love songs. The paper aims to analyze the conceptual metaphor of love in English and Vietnamese 20th century songs and to find out the similarities and differences between conceptual metaphors of love in English and Vietnamese 20th century songs. We analyzed 240 samples from English and Vietnamese songs in 20th century on the basic of theory of Kovesces and Lakoff about conceptual metaphor. Basing on contrastive analysis theory, eight conceptual metaphors of love in English and Vietnamese 20th century songs have been found and the similarities and the differences of these conceptual metaphors between the two languages have been sorted out. All in all, this study also helps English learners of Vietnamese and Vietnamese learners of English have a better insight into conceptual metaphor of love and helps them learn these foreign languages better. It also provides learners with the knowledge of culture underlying the similarities and dissimilarities in conceptual metaphor in general and in love songs in particular.
Key words: conceptual metaphor, love, songs, metaphorical mapping
