The Structure Of Metaphor
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Author | : Roger M. White |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1996-06-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631168119 |
This volume provides a philosophical introduction to and analysis of the study of metaphor. By proceeding from the concrete analysis of complex metaphors, White is able to identify a range of features which are incompatible with standard accounts of the way words function in metaphor.
Author | : Eva Feder Kittay |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198242468 |
The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive philosophical theory which explains the cognitive contribution of metaphor. The argument is illustrated with analysis of metaphors from literature, philosophy, science, and everyday language.
Author | : Gerard J. Steen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027263477 |
Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system. It can hence be expressed in language but also in other modalities and media of communication, including gesture and body language, sound and music, and film and visuals. In spite of this theoretical landslide, however, the wide range of nonverbal metaphor and its processing has neither been empirically investigated on the same scale nor with the same rigour as metaphor in language. The overarching goal of this book is to report on the findings of a research program aimed at exploiting the vast cognitive linguistic and psycholinguistic expertise on metaphor in language for a new, behaviourally founded approach to the structure and processes of metaphor in one of these nonverbal manifestations, namely static visuals. The book presents concepts and methods for the identification and analysis of metaphor in document structure as well as new approaches to the study of visual metaphor processing. Its results are intended to further the development of an encompassing and robust cognitive-scientific theory of metaphor by including visual metaphor while also enriching our understanding of the communicative possibilities and effects of visual metaphor in multimodal discourse.
Author | : Ning Yu |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027223531 |
This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, in order to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. It focuses on metaphors of emotion, the "time as space" metaphor and the Event Structure Metaphor.
Author | : Zoltán Kövecses |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108490875 |
Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.
Author | : Jerome Feldman |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2008-01-25 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0262296888 |
In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to explicate the links between. Although the cognitive sciences are revealing much about how our brains produce language and thought, we do not yet know exactly how words are understood or have any methodology for finding out. Feldman develops his theory in computer simulations—formal models that suggest ways that language and thought may be realized in the brain. Combining key findings and theories from biology, computer science, linguistics, and psychology, Feldman synthesizes a theory by exhibiting programs that demonstrate the required behavior while remaining consistent with the findings from all disciplines. After presenting the essential results on language, learning, neural computation, the biology of neurons and neural circuits, and the mind/brain, Feldman introduces specific demonstrations and formal models of such topics as how children learn their first words, words for abstract and metaphorical concepts, understanding stories, and grammar (including "hot-button" issues surrounding the innateness of human grammar). With this accessible, comprehensive book Feldman offers readers who want to understand how our brains create thought and language a theory of language that is intuitively plausible and also consistent with existing scientific data at all levels.
Author | : George Lakoff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008-12-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226470997 |
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
Author | : George Lakoff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1980-11-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226468006 |
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
Author | : Gerard J. Steen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2007-11-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027291853 |
Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a large array of methods and techniques. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage aims to map the field of this development in theory and research from a methodological perspective. It raises the question when exactly evidence for metaphor in language and thought can be said to count as converging. It also goes into the various stages of producing such evidence (conceptualization, operationalization, data collection and analysis, and interpretation). The book offers systematic discussion of eight distinct areas of metaphor research that emerge as a result of approaching metaphor as part of grammar or usage, language or thought, and symbolic structure or cognitive process.
Author | : Beate Hampe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2017-06-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 110719833X |
This book brings together leading metaphor researchers from a number of disciplines to unite the field of metaphor theory.