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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.
- Cognitive Linguistics and Metaphor - Springer
Metaphor is fundamentally a kind of mental mapping and...
- Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics - Springer
In this new the ory, metaphor is considered as a fundamental...
- Cognitive Linguistics and Metaphor - Springer
Metaphor is fundamentally a kind of mental mapping and neural coactivation from which certain patterns of conventional and novel metaphorical language arise and which influences how people think, rea-son and imagine in everyday life (Lakoff 2008; Lakoff and Johnson 1999). Conceptual metaphor theory distinguishes between the words metaphor
In this new the ory, metaphor is considered as a fundamental cognitive process, as a basic schema 'by which people conceptualize their experience and the external world' (Gibbs, 1994, p.1). In this chapter we shall have a look at some experientialist ideas.
- Marina Rakova
- 2003
Nov 1, 2008 · This article evaluates two directions of metaphor research within linguistics, cognitive linguistics and relevance theory, which both aim to capture essential aspects of the reason for metaphor, and how people ordinarily use and understand metaphor in daily life.
- Markus Tendahl, Raymond W. Gibbs
- 2008
Jan 1, 2010 · The article presents a survey of the metaphor- and simile-related researches in modern linguistics and considers stylistic functions of metaphors and similes in contemporary fiction.
- Attila Imre
Section 3 focuses on metaphor and metonymy, two tropes that in Cognitive Linguistics are regarded not only as figures of language but, importantly, also of thought.
Jun 5, 2012 · Metaphor and metonymy both involve a vehicle and a target. Metaphor involves an interaction between two domains construed from two regions of purport, and the content of the vehicle domain is an ingredient of the construed target through processes of correspondence and blending.
