Generalized metaphor is cognitive manner of human being, as well as semantic mapping between two semantic domains. Although sign language is "simple and obvious in word meaning", it is provided with metaphor mechanism in like manner. Begin with semantic coherence, the metaphor of sign language creates semantic conflict between the source domain and target domain, and by solving the conflicts, new metaphorical meaning is created. While in the process, embodiment plays a role as basic for the cross-domain mapping. To understand the metaphor in ...