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Conceptualizing Metaphors

Author : Ivan Mladenov

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 17,80 MB

Release : 2007-04-11

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1134237405

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The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be the only useful approach to the riddle of reality. This book represents an attempt to outline an analytical method based on Charles Peirce’s least explored branch of philosophy, which is his evolutionary cosmology, and his notion that the universe is made of an ‘effete mind.’ The chief argument conceives of human discourse as a giant metaphor in regard to outside reality. The metaphors arise in our imagination as lightning-fast schemes for acting, speaking, or thinking. To illustrate this, each chapter will present a well-known metaphor and explain how it is unfolded and conceptualized according to the new method for revealing meaning. This original work will interest students and scholars in many fields including semiotics, linguistics and philosophy.



Conceptualizing Metaphors

Author : Ivan Mladenov

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 19,44 MB

Release : 2007-04-11

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1134237413

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Book Description

The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be the only useful approach to the riddle of reality. This book represents an attempt to outline an analytical method based on Charles Peirce’s least explored branch of philosophy, which is his evolutionary cosmology, and his notion that the universe is made of an ‘effete mind.’ The chief argument conceives of human discourse as a giant metaphor in regard to outside reality. The metaphors arise in our imagination as lightning-fast schemes for acting, speaking, or thinking. To illustrate this, each chapter will present a well-known metaphor and explain how it is unfolded and conceptualized according to the new method for revealing meaning. This original work will interest students and scholars in many fields including semiotics, linguistics and philosophy.



Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Author : Zoltán Kövecses

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 211 pages

File Size : 38,99 MB

Release : 2020-04-23

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1108490875

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Book Description

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



The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Barbara Dancygier

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1427 pages

File Size : 14,51 MB

Release : 2017-06-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1108146139

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The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.



Metaphor Across Time and Conceptual Space

Author : James J. Mischler

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,88 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Cognitive grammar

ISBN : 9789027204066

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The book presents the result of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and emperical mixed methods design, employing both quantitative and qualitative analysis measures. The implications for conceptual metaphor theory, research methodology, and future study are discussed in detail.



Metaphors We Live By

Author : George Lakoff

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 30,70 MB

Release : 2008-12-19

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0226470997

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Book Description

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.



Metaphor Wars

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 333 pages

File Size : 13,14 MB

Release : 2017-05-04

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1107071143

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Book Description

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.



Conceptualizing Evolution Education

Author : Shala Barczewska

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 15,39 MB

Release : 2017-06-20

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1443896241

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This volume explores the benefits of grounding corpus-assisted discourse analysis within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. This is accomplished here against the highly emotive controversy over the teaching of evolution in the US classroom. The book explores grammatical construal, conceptual metaphor theory, conceptual blending theory, frame semantics, and key word analysis, and uses a combination of corpus-based analysis and in-depth manual analysis of select articles. As such, it provides both a broad picture of the way the debate is conceptualized in the US press, as well as a close-up of some of the more representative discourses. This research will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields including corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, communication studies and American culture, as well as anyone interested in the debate over evolution education.



The Conceptualization of Dress in Prophetic Metaphors

Author : S. J. Parrott

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 15,23 MB

Release : 2023

Category : Bibles

ISBN : 9004677453

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Book Description

Jerusalem/Zion's metaphoric investiture/divestiture of dress is a central force to create new perspectives on reality and of a nation's selfhood in contexts of suffering and destruction, making dress in prophetic metaphors a crucial means of communication and perception management.



Conceptualizing Biblical Cities

Author : Karolien Vermeulen

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 26,80 MB

Release : 2020-07-23

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3030452700

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This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the city image in the Hebrew Bible, with specific attention to stylistics. By engaging with spatial theory (Lefebvre 1974, Soja 1996), the author develops a new framework to analyse the concept of ‘city’, arguing that a set of conceptual images defines the Biblical Hebrew city, each of them constructed using the same linguistic toolkit. Contrary to previous studies, the book shows that biblical cities are not necessarily evil or female. In addition, there is no substantial difference between the metaphorical images used for Jerusalem and those used for other cities. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of stylistics, urban studies, critical-spatial theory and biblical studies (especially Biblical Hebrew).