Conceptual metaphor

I. INTRODUCTION For many people, conceptual metaphor seems to be a strange concept that only associated itself with the “poetic imagination and rhetorical flourish”( Metaphor we live by – 1998), a dedicated language form for limited purposes. This is why it is considered as a redundant that simply can be forgotten. However, conceptual metaphor is a very common phenomenon in every existing language of the world whose impact can be seen in the daily conversation of people and the involving thought

already present in the conceptual system of speakers (Dobrovolskij and Piiranien 2005: 8). In other words, idiom are not arbitrary, they depend on how the people will conceptualise the domains to which those idioms refer (Gibbs and Nayak 1991:94). Moreover, idioms belong to a conceptual system that is fixed in the metaphors of

Kövecses classifies conceptual metaphors based on their conventionality, function, nature and the level of metaphor generality. When it comes to conventionality from the linguistic point of view, it implies arbitrary use of some expressions that will stand for some phenomenon. Examples of these may be "love is a journey", ''argument is a war", ''theories are buildings". These examples of conventional conceptual metaphors are ''deeply entrenched ways of thinking about or understanding an abstract

Introduction The early theoretical conceptualisation saw metaphors as tool for figurative language; a poetic device which enhances the beauty of an art work. They were considered as carriers of abstract meanings which could camouflage ordinary thoughts and present them as extra ordinary. The analysis of metaphors in literature took a foreground as they were taken to be an inevitable part of interpretation and critical analysis discourse, as metaphors and symbols were considered to be the key to hidden

Specific Aims Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) (Lakoff, & Johnson, 1980) proposes that people use concrete experiences to represent abstract concepts through metaphorical mappings. Santiago and his colleagues (2012) reviewed the literatures on CMT, and summarized task effect called "conceptual congruency". Conceptual congruency effect (CCE) indicates the task effect that while people do judgment on an abstract conceptual dimension, their performance can be influenced by the manipulation on a concrete

When explaining even more thoroughly the systematicity feature, Lakoff and Johnson referred to Michael Reddy’s “conduit metaphor”: it is when an part of our experience is hidden by a metaphorical concept; He believes that our language about language is organized or even designed as the following metaphor: ‘Ideas (or meanings) are perceived as objects’, ‘Linguistic expressions are perceived as containers’ and ‘communication is perceived as sending’. This means that when someone wants to say an expression

Book Review of ‘Metaphors We Live By’ by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson In the book ‘Metaphors We Live By’, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson delve into the significance metaphors have in our lives. The book presents their argument of conceptual metaphors affecting our daily lives through shaping fundamental thinking processes. Lakoff is a cognitive linguist who has applied the thesis of conceptual metaphor to various other fields, such as politics, philosophy, literature, and even mathematics

ied ImJournal of Consumer Research, Inc. Speaking of Art as Embodied Imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Understanding Aesthetic Experience Author(s): Annamma Joy and John F. Sherry, Jr. Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 30, No. 2 (September 2003), pp. 259-282 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/376802 . Accessed: 22/10/2012 06:18 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions

The Sapir-Whorf “Hypothesis” By Manuel Oppel del Rio The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a proposition that has been debated for hundreds or even thousands of years (Ahearn 1962: 65). Often attributed to Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf, this theory postulates that the language one speaks influences or even determines your thoughts, actions, and perception of the world (Ahearn 1962: 65-66). I will attempt to demonstrate that this is at least partially—although not entirely—true, based on my

The analogical theory says that a word can have a variance of meanings. So according to this theory when I say I love food (object), I don’t mean it the same way I would when I say, I love my family (human). Here the word (love) has different meanings relating to the objects. Even though we may in fact love both the food and our family, and the types of love are similar, I would hope that we have a different type of love for food (objects) than we do for our family (humans) as there is a definite