Where Metaphors Come from

Where Metaphors Come from
Author: Zoltán Kövecses
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780190224868

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In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual metaphors are based on our bodily experience. While this is certainly true in many cases of metaphor, the role of the body in metaphor creation can and should be reinterpreted, and, consequently, the body can be seen as just one of the several contexts from which metaphors can emerge (including the situational, discourse, and conceptual-cognitive contexts) - although perhaps the dominant or crucial one. Kövecses is a leader in CMT, and his argument in this book is more in line with what has been discovered about the nature of human cognition in recent years; namely, that human cognition is grounded in experience in multiple ways - embodiment, in a strict sense, being just one of them (see Barsalou, 2008; Gibbs, 2006; Pecher and Zwaan, 2005). In light of the present work, this is because cognition, including metaphorical cognition, is grounded in not only the body, but also in the situations in which people act and lead their lives, the discourses in which they are engaged at any time in communicating and interacting with each other, and the conceptual knowledge they have accumulated about the world in the course of their experience of it.

Metaphor

Metaphor
Author: Zoltan Kovecses
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2010-03-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199705313

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Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on 'metaphors in discourse' and 'metaphor and emotion' --along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised student exercises, tables, and figures.

Metaphor Wars

Metaphor Wars
Author: Raymond W. Gibbs
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781107071148

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The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. This book explores the critical role that conceptual metaphors play in language, thought, cultural and expressive actions. It evaluates the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

Metaphors We Live By

Metaphors We Live By
Author: George Lakoff,Mark Johnson
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1980-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0226468003

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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.

The Power of Metaphor

The Power of Metaphor
Author: Mark Jordan Landau
Publsiher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2014
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1433815796

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This book explores the possibility that metaphor is a cognitive tool that people routinely use to understand abstract concepts (such as morality) in terms of superficially dissimilar concepts that are relatively easier to comprehend (such as cleanliness).

Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Author: Zoltán Kövecses
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781108490870

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Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

Metaphor in Use

Metaphor in Use
Author: Fiona MacArthur,Jose Luis Oncins-Martinez,Manuel Sánchez-García,Ana María Piquer-Píriz
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027223920

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Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and hearers affect the way metaphors are produced or interpreted? Are the methods employed to explore metaphors in one context applicable in others? The sixteen chapters that make up this volume offer not only detailed studies of the situated use of metaphor in language, gesture, and visuals around the world – providing important insights into the different factors that produce variation – but also careful explication and discussion of the methodological issues that arise when researchers approach metaphor in diverse 'real world' contexts. The book constitutes an important contribution to applied metaphor studies, and will prove an invaluable resource for the novice and experienced metaphor researcher alike.

Metaphor in Culture

Metaphor in Culture
Author: Zoltán Kövecses
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2005-02-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781139444613

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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.