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We begin with a brief introduc-tion to metaphor and offer a critical assessment of the claim that conventional metaphors in language reflect underlying conceptual representations and processing, a view associated with Lakoff and Johnson's groundbreaking conceptual metaphor theory (CMT).
We begin with a brief introduction to metaphor and offer a critical assessment of the claim that conventional metaphors in language reflect underlying conceptual representations and processing, a view associated with Lakoff and Johnson's groundbreaking conceptual metaphor theory (CMT).
- Stephen Flusberg, Teenie Matlock
May 9, 2019 · We begin with a brief introduction to metaphor and offer a critical assessment of the claim that conventional metaphors in language reflect underlying conceptual representations and...
There are attempts to tackle the phenomenon through an array of models, including conceptual metaphor theory (Kövecses), ATT-Meta (Barnden), a combination of the previous two (Lonergan and Gibbs), discourse dynamics (Cameron), deliberate metaphor (Steen), and conceptual blending (Forceville).
- Jordan Zlatev, Georgios Stampoulidis
- 2018
Jan 1, 2019 · Kimmel (2010) describes mixing metaphors as cognitively successful, because they allow the speaker to cover various aspects of a target domain, while Müller (2016, p. 49) thinks that "mixing of...
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.
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In metaphor theory, metaphor analysis focuses on the implied conceptual mappings of a metaphor and offers vocabulary for describing writers’ creative strategies in rethinking those mappings.
