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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... primary metaphors . And yet , when we look at metaphors in the world's languages , we have the distinct impression that there is a large number of nonuni- versal metaphors as well , and that they may be just as numerous as the universal ...
... primary metaphors . And yet , when we look at metaphors in the world's languages , we have the distinct impression that there is a large number of nonuni- versal metaphors as well , and that they may be just as numerous as the universal ...
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... primary metaphors may be language - specific . ( I will provide several examples for this in later chapters , especially in chapter 3. ) The point is that the primary metaphors are likely to be universal , whereas the complex ones that ...
... primary metaphors may be language - specific . ( I will provide several examples for this in later chapters , especially in chapter 3. ) The point is that the primary metaphors are likely to be universal , whereas the complex ones that ...
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... primary metaphor (e.g., Grady, 1997a, 1997b). The main idea in all this work was that abstract thought, largely defined by metaphor, is the result of the way the human body constrains the way we think about abstractions such as time ...
... primary metaphor (e.g., Grady, 1997a, 1997b). The main idea in all this work was that abstract thought, largely defined by metaphor, is the result of the way the human body constrains the way we think about abstractions such as time ...
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... primary metaphor important for developmental and cognitive purposes, I believe that complex metaphors are more important to cultural considerations. It is complex metaphors – not primary metaphors – with which peo- ple actually engage ...
... primary metaphor important for developmental and cognitive purposes, I believe that complex metaphors are more important to cultural considerations. It is complex metaphors – not primary metaphors – with which peo- ple actually engage ...
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... metaphor as studied in English (Lakoff,1987). On the view of primary metaphor, the mapping that characterizes this metaphor should be universal; heat should map onto the in- tensity of sexual desire. But in another language such as ...
... metaphor as studied in English (Lakoff,1987). On the view of primary metaphor, the mapping that characterizes this metaphor should be universal; heat should map onto the in- tensity of sexual desire. But in another language such as ...
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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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