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  1. Jan 1, 2010 · Metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics. Attila Imre. The first part of the article offers an historical overview of. metaphors, starting from Arist otle and the classical definition of. metaphor ...

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  2. Apr 27, 2023 · DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511816802. A very impressive anthology of the most recent empirical research coming from cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, literary theory, and cultural theory. This is the best source from which to get a sense of the most-current directions of research. Johnson, Mark. ed. 1981.

    • Introduction. Metaphor has been a central topic within Cognitive Linguistics since the field was born and the term coined in the 1970s. This is partly a historical consequence of George Lakoff's dominant role and major contributions—metaphor was his focus at the time he and a number of colleagues were defining the field of Cognitive Linguistics, and continues to be today.
    • Basics of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The most fundamental notion of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) is the mapping2 This term borrowed from mathematics refers to systematic metaphorical correspondences between closely related ideas.
    • Primary Metaphors and “Neural CMT” There is a set of pervasive conceptual metaphors which seem to reveal with special directness the deep relationships between word usage, conceptual structure, and the way we experience the world.
    • The Cognitive Reality of Conceptual Metaphors. Are the mappings identified within CMT cognitively “real,” rather than mere clever inventions of the analyst trying to account for data (like competing phonological analyses which share nothing except that they can generate the same set of forms)?
  3. Abstract. Today many metaphor researchers work in the framework of cognitive linguistics. The cognitive linguistics revolution began in 1980 with the publication of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By. In their book, Lakoff and Johnson amassed an amazing number of examples showing that the way we talk about abstract domains ...

    • Marina Rakova
    • 2003
  4. Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics 21 meaning of 'reach' ('to reach a shelf'). PURPOSES ARE PHYSICAL GOALS is the representation of this understanding in conceptual structure. Metaphor becomes redefined in the experientialist framework as a way of 'understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another' (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, p.

    • Marina Rakova
    • 2003
  5. Metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics. The first part of the article offers an historical overview of metaphors, starting from Aristotle and the classical definition of metaphor. Chomsky's contribution to cognitive psychology is also mentioned together with Rosch’s and Kay and McDaniel’s research concerning categorization.

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  7. Nov 1, 2008 · After all, cognitive linguistics and relevance theory adhere to very different theoretical goals and methodological assumptions, despite the fact that both positions aim to present a cognitive theory of metaphor. These different goals and working assumptions are so great, in fact, that few metaphor scholars have tried to systematically compare ...

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