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Steven Winter, for example, has shown how metaphorical models of understanding have shaped the growth and development of legal doctrine. Steven L. Winter, “The Meaning of `Under Color of law,’ “ Michigan Law Review 91 (1992): 323-418; Steven L. Winter, “Transcendental Nonsense, Metaphoric Reasoning, and the Cognitive Stakes for Law,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 137 (1989 ...
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In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another.An example of this is the understanding of quantity in terms of directionality (e.g. "the price of peace is rising") or the understanding of time in terms of money (e.g.
cognitive models of metaphor comprehension: juxtaposition, category-transfer, featur e-matching, and str uctural alignment. Structural alignment deals best with the widest range of examples; but it still f ails to account for the complexity and r ichness of fairly novel, poetic metaphors. 1. General Issues in the Study of Metaphor
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Cognitive processes . Abstract: Conceptual metaphor theory posits that metaphors are cognitive phenomena shaping our understanding of the world, not just linguistic tools. This essay explores the metaphor "Love is a Journey" within this framework, analyzing its grounding in embodied experiences and its impact on understanding love.
Sep 5, 2023 · CMT has indeed generated widespread consensus around the new puzzle-solutions, especially in the structural-functional study of metaphor in language and thought. This has also generated a whole new set of paradigmatic examples of metaphor and how it is processed in use. However, the borders of this solution now may have been reached.
Mar 31, 2024 · In this chapter we address Lakoff and Johnson’s [1, 2] Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which, building on the earlier philosophical tradition, argues that people “speak in metaphors” because they “think in metaphors” and therefore “act in metaphors” and which emphasizes the role of metaphor in our thought and language processes. After an introduction to Conceptual Metaphor Theory, we ...
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Mar 8, 2018 · metaphors implies an eye for resemblances” (see Levin, 1982, for a discussion of Aristotle’s views). Over the ensuing centuries, metaphor has proved to be a perennial source of fascination for philosophers, poets, linguists, computer scientists, and psycholo-gists. In recent years metaphor and related cognitive processes