Both English and Chinese have a wealth of“walking-associated” vocabulary with a common figurative mean-ing of “performance, work, ability”.These expressions have a close or loose relation with the notion of “walking”, which contributes to their complex cognitive pattern of metaphor-metonymy co-existence or metonymy-within-metonymies.In the wake of illustrating this linguistic phenomenon with abundant examples, this paper offers a motivation interpretation of the phenomenon and then proposes a plan of building a ...
