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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. In their book, Lakoff and Johnson amassed an...
- Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics - Springer
In this new the ory, metaphor is considered as a fundamental...
- Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics - Springer
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
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
What is metaphor, and how does it work? The concept of metaphor was established by Aristotle in his Rhetoric and Poetics as a feature of language which is used by all people, involves a cognitive process, and has a special role to play in effective speech and poetry.
- 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)?
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.
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Jun 5, 2012 · 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.
