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Religious Discourse and (Cognitive) Metaphor Theory

Leuvense Bijdragen - Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology, 2003
The present review article deals with two collections of studies published as the first two volumes in the series "Religions and Discourse" by Peter Lang under the editorship of James Francis. This new series is to focus on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of figurative language in religious discourse in the major world faiths.
Brdar-Szabó, Rita, Brdar, Mario
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Introduction The cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy

2003
Antonio Barcelona
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Further Cognitive Contributions to Metaphor Theory

2011
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Cognitive Theories of Metaphor

The European Legacy, 2007
Twentieth-century modernist theories of metaphor, developed in the framework of philosophy, have made substantial contributions to our understanding of metaphor, especially in refuting the classica...
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A Figurative Mind: Gertrude Buck's The Metaphor as a Nexus in Cognitive Metaphor Theory

Rhetorica, 2017
Gertrude Bucks (1899) The Metaphor: A Study in the Psychology of Rhetoric (Die Metapher: Eine Studie in der Psychologie der Rhetorik) ist ein einzigartiges Essay. In vielerlei Hinsicht prognostiziert das Essay die Metaphern des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts in der Rhetorik, der Linguistik und den Kognitionswissenschaften, inklusive Richards (1936 ...
Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Randy Allen Harris   +1 more
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A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor

Leonardo, 1987
Peter Lloyd Jones, Earl R. MacCormac
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Metaphor and Cognition: Two Theories

2000
AbstractModern ‘intuitionist’ theories of metaphor have echoed Plato's views, arguing for a clear distinction between the cognitive function of conventional, literal language and the special symbolic and expressive function of aesthetic language. Intuitionism (as that term is now applied to theories of metaphor) developed in reaction against positivist
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The Concept of Domain in the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 1995
In cognitive semantics metaphors are cross-domain mappings in the conceptual system. Thus the notion of domain plays a crucial role in the theory. However, domain is never defined, but taken for granted. By means of data from language acquisition and language production and comprehension I question the cognitive status of the notion of domain ...
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Metaphor as Change of Representation: An Interaction Theory of Cognition and Metaphor

1994
Imagine a poet comparing hawthorn (a wild flower shrub) to water. What are the similarities between the two? Suppose someone tells you that the ocean is like a harp. What can she possibly mean? How can a harp be similar to the ocean? In each of these cases, there seem to be no similarities between the two objects. Yet, in the poem White Hawthorn in the
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Translation Studies and the cognitive theory of metaphor

Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2011
Although metaphor has always been a main concern in TS, little has been done to apply a far-raging cognitive theory of metaphor and metonymy to translation. As a rule, the few authors that have tried to deal with it are eclectic in their cognitive approach and show a prescriptive bias as concerns translation theory.
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