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Kim, Dae-Young. 2014. The Portential of Harmonizing Cognitive Linguistics and Relevance Theory in Studying Metaphor. Journal of Linguistic Studies 19(1), 173-197. Cognitive linguistics and Relevance Theory share two common points. First is that both the two theories view metaphor as a natural linguistic mechanism which reflects human cognitive activities. Second is that both sides accept subjectivization in the process of meaning determination. However, when metaphor is used in ordinary language communication, it holds implicated meanings that transcend the literal sense of the sentence (i.e. linguistic/rhetorical use of metaphor), which is context-dependant and sensitive. This is different from conceptual metaphor, which is a way of thinking that brings about a range of language expressions that involve that type of thinking. Furthermore, whereas Relevance Theory views that the process of interpreting utterance is composed of two clear-cut phases (i.e. decoding and inference), the embodied-mind hypothesis by cognitive linguistics disregards this modularity. Focusing on those theoretical common points and differences between cognitive linguistics and Relevance Theory, I tap on the potential of harmonizing those two sides in studying metaphor. (JeonJu University)