Metaphor in Culture: Universality and VariationCambridge University Press, 2005 M02 7 To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kövecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation. |
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... embodiment makes meaningful not only language but also a wider range of cultural practices . The con- ception of culture as embodied practice ( see Foley , 1997 ) also goes against any " thinglike ” interpretation of culture by me . On ...
... embodiment makes meaningful not only language but also a wider range of cultural practices . The con- ception of culture as embodied practice ( see Foley , 1997 ) also goes against any " thinglike ” interpretation of culture by me . On ...
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... embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation. I will show that the coherence among these systems is partial most of the time (at least in the case of complex metaphors), but that we also find cases of complete coherence and, at the ...
... embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation. I will show that the coherence among these systems is partial most of the time (at least in the case of complex metaphors), but that we also find cases of complete coherence and, at the ...
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... Embodiment The recognition of the kind of correlation that exists in the body be- tween intensity (of action or state) and heat gave rise to theembodiment hypothesis, which states that metaphorical thought is based on such correlated ...
... Embodiment The recognition of the kind of correlation that exists in the body be- tween intensity (of action or state) and heat gave rise to theembodiment hypothesis, which states that metaphorical thought is based on such correlated ...
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Contenido
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PART II DIMENSIONS OF METAPHOR VARIATION | 65 |
PART III ASPECTS OF METAPHOR INVOLVED IN VARIATION | 115 |
PART IV CAUSES OF METAPHOR VARIATION | 229 |
References | 295 |
Index | 307 |
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