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Apr 2, 2023 · Cognitive scientist Michael Kimmel has shown that mixed metaphors account for the majority of metaphoric clusters found in a large sample drawn from British newspapers.
Theorists propose that metaphors are not mere figures of speech, but can actively shape one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Social psychologists have supported this claim over the past 10 years. Personality psychologists, though, have only recently begun investigating how metaphors can inform our understanding of what makes us different ...
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
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 ...
(2010), expands on Davidson’s (1978) contention that metaphor comprehension is imagistic in nature. Carston (2010), building on the idea that there are fundamental differences between extended literary metaphor or mixed metaphor and conventional metaphor, argued that two competing processes occur during metaphor comprehension.
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.
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Mar 1, 2016 · As Carston discusses, this kind of analysis is at odds with the intuition about metaphor articulated by Davidson (1978/1984: 263), who considers metaphors to have no propositional content other than their literal meaning and to be essentially imagistic, observing that “much of what we are caused [by metaphor] to notice is not propositional in character”. In Carston's view, a comprehensive ...
