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Jan 22, 2015 · Abstract. The chapter discusses how we can conceptualize the phenomenon of “culture” from a cognitive linguistic point of view. This exploration leads to an “enhanced” view of culture, as well as context, where a distinction can be made between two ways of conceiving of culture (and context): culture as our meaning making system (as discussed in Chapter 3) functioning as context, on ...
In other words, this book is an attempt by me to make one possible version of the cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor more accessible to those who have an interest in studying the role of metaphor in complex social–cultural phenomena, such as emotions, politics, thought, and morality, as well as highly abstract cultural processes and entities such as time, life, and personhood.
Mar 22, 2018 · In particular, research on emotions has found that (1) a number of conceptual metaphors are used to conceptualize a single emotion concept, such as anger; (2) a number of conceptual metonymies participate in this conceptualization (metonymy is a cognitive process in which an element of a frame is used to stand for the whole frame or another element of the same frame); (3) many metaphors (e.g ...
Oct 7, 2009 · inconsistent with that metaphor.” 19 Metaphors “form coherent systems in terms of which we conceptualize our experience” 20 – and cultural phenomena 16 Lakoff and Johnson 85.
Nov 30, 2012 · In a teacher education program, this might take the form of iterative engagement with theory and practice specifically tied to a new concept of culture. 8 Theoretical readings can provide a language for making tacit knowledge about culture (as a concept) more visible and for constructing new knowledge, for example, through readings and discussions that introduce metaphors (common in some areas ...
- Gale Seiler
- 2013
Hence, metaphors stand in structural continuity with other forms, creating a complex ‘play of tropes’.62 Especially the suggestion to see tropes as instruments of cultural ‘performance’ made by Fernandez makes categorical definitions of metaphor as standing apart from metonymy, synecdoche (as a special form of metonymy), and irony obsolete in many cases.63 A common form that the play ...
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To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically, can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary ...
