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May 17, 2023 · Metaphor remains a pivotal focus in the philosophy of language as Lakoff stresses that metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon of human beings and an indispensable part of key cognitive areas.
Jan 1, 2018 · The internal structure of metaphors Concerning the interior structure of metaphor, the method of cognition claims that two portions form conceptual metaphor: the target domain and the source domain; the cognitive force of metaphor lies is that the schematic structure of the latter is mapped to the former's structure; this mapping occurs at the conceptual level while it is also systematic in ...
- LiPing Fan
- 2018
Nov 1, 2008 · Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory Markus Tendahl a , Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. b, * a Department of English Linguistics, University of Dortmund, Germany b Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Received 5 March 2007; received in revised form 31 August 2007; accepted 3 February 2008 Abstract Contemporary theories ...
- Markus Tendahl, Raymond W. Gibbs
- 2008
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 ...
- stefana.garello@unipa.it
Nov 24, 2009 · The idea that metaphor is a central cognitive process for abstract conceptualization and reasoning calls into question many of the founding assumptions of the traditional view. As we learn much more about brain processes underlying cognition, emotion, symbolic expression, and communicative behavior, we will be in a better position to put to the test previous theories formulated without benefit ...
- Mark Johnson
- 2010
Feb 24, 2006 · The most sustained and innovative recent work on metaphor has occurred in cognitive science and psychology. Psycholinguistic investigation suggests that novel, poetic metaphors are processed differently than literal speech, while relatively conventionalized and contextually salient metaphors are processed more like literal speech.
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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
