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Spatial metaphors we live by. Everyday transfers in language and thought| old_uid | 15514 |
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| title | Spatial metaphors we live by. Everyday transfers in language and thought |
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| start_date | 2018/03/02 |
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| schedule | 12h30 |
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| online | no |
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| details | Journal Club Dendy |
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| summary | Based on certain assumptions of Western philosophy, metaphors have been traditionally described as stylistic devices employed in literary and poetic contexts in order to fulfil aesthetic purposes. Since the second half of the 20th century, however, Cognitive Linguistics has been challenging this classical view by reinterpreting metaphors as the basis of the whole human conceptual system, a matter of thought and action rather than a “mere” figure of speech. Ever since the publication of the first important study in the field, i.e. Lakoff & Johnson's Metaphors we live by (1980), on which this presentation is largely based, metaphor has become one of the most fascinating subjects of contemporary research in linguistics, cognitive sciences, philosophy and psychology, among others. This talk aims to draw a preliminary sketch on the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor (cf. Lakoff & Johnson 1980; Lakoff 1987, 1993; Forceville & UriosAparisi 2009, inter alia), with special reference to the transfers from the source domain of Space and Motion to more abstract target domains (e.g. Sound, Time, Emotions). After an introduction on the features and operating principles of conceptual metaphors, I will present some spacerelated patterns, and discuss their physical and experiential grounding in the light of the Embodied Cognition Theory (cf. Johnson 1987; Lakoff & Johnson 1999, inter alia). This presentation has the threefold purpose of (1) providing an introduction on Cognitive Metaphor, (2) examining some of the most pervasive spatial metaphors in our everyday language, and (3) preparing the ground for further research in this domain.
References
Johnson, M. (1987). The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lakoff, G. (1993). The contemporary theory of metaphor. In A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and thought (pp. 202251). 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic.
UriosAparisi, E. & Forceville, C. J. (2009). Multimodal Metaphor. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. |
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