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Nov 25, 2020 · A wide variety of metaphors have been used to depict humans over the centuries—humans are like demi-gods, like grasshoppers and ants. Metaphors are at the root of meta-models of humans and their development. These metaphors anchor our subject matter in analogues that call up rich associations. As pointed out by Reese and Overton (1970 ...
Jan 1, 2010 · The metaphors satisfy the two basic conditions for mixed metaphor: (1) they occur in textual adjacency, i.e. within a single metaphor cluster, and (2) they do not (for the most part) share any imagistic ontology or any direct inferential entailments between them. Mixed metaphors like these have traditionally posed a challenge to theorists.
- Michael Kimmel
- 2010
Nov 25, 2020 · This page titled 17.1: Metaphors and Meta-theories in Human Development is shared under a CC BY-NC license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Ellen A. Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann, Robert W. Roeser, Cathleen L Smith, Andrew Mashburn & Joel Steele (Portland State University Library) .
The metaphors satisfy the two basic conditions for mixed metaphor: (1) they occur in textual adjacency, i.e. within a single metaphor cluster, and (2) they do not (for the most part) share any imagistic ontology or any direct inferential entailments between them. Mixed metaphors like these have traditionally posed a challenge to theorists.
- Michael Kimmel
This paper explores why speakers and addressees seem to have no problem in making sense of mixed metaphors. We will argue that the mixing of metaphors reveals something about the nature of conventionalized metaphoric meaning that is as interesting for cognitive linguists as speech errors are for psycholinguists. First, it shows that so-called dead metaphors are alive for speakers, second it ...
Jan 31, 2010 · A substantive base that forms a metaphor in the work of Petrushevskaya is also relevant, together with the factors that influence the development of metaphorical relations, those events or ...
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Development is a core theoretical issue for psychology. Yet, the root metaphors that guide theory and research on development have rarely been questioned, and the limitations and blind spots of these metaphors have not been made explicit. In this article, we propose an exercise in theoretical imagination. We start by reviewing the metaphors commonly used in developmental psychology. We then ...
