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Metaphorical conceptualizations

2022
The book deals with the important shift that has been heralded in cognitive linguistics from mere universal matters to cultural and situational variation. The discussions examine cognitive and cultural linguistics’ theories in relation to the following areas of research: (i) metaphorical conceptualization; (ii) the influence of culture on metaphor ...
Schröder, Ulrike   +2 more
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Metaphoric Conceptual Pathways

Cognitive Semantics, 2021
Abstract When we are engaged in metaphorical conceptualization online, we create and comprehend a metaphorical contextual meaning through an expression with a more basic, literal meaning. How does this process happen? I cannot answer this question as a psychologist or psycholinguist would; I attempt to answer it from the perspective of a cognitive ...
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Conceptualizing Endometriosis Pain Through Metaphors

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2023
ABSTRACT: Biomedical and philosophical traditions postulate the experience of pain either as quantifiable or as sociocultural phenomena. This critical assessment offers a close reading of Lara Parker’s Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics (2020) and Abby Norman’s Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in
Julia M, Abraham, , Rajasekaran
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Conceptual Metaphor Meets Conceptual Change

Human Development, 2009
This paper argues that the metaphorical representation of concepts and the appropriation of language-based construals can be hypothesized as additional sources of conceptual change alongside those previously proposed. Analyses of construals implicit in the lay and scientific use of the noun <i>energy</i> from the perspective of the theory ...
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Conceptual metaphor theory

2022
Abstract This chapter reviews conceptual metaphor theory with a focus on one aspect that is also especially characteristic of the present study—its systematicity in metaphor research. It traces conceptual metaphor theory’s developmental trajectory as a systematic approach to metaphor in language and cognition.
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Crowdchecking conceptual metaphors

2015
This chapter presents a procedure for metaphor checking using a crowdsource-like technique to validate conceptual metaphors and proposed entailments gathered electronically. In an initial online survey, K-12 principals and teachers completed metaphoric stems for the roles and duties of building-level administrators.
Hope Smith Davis   +2 more
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Conceptual metaphor theory

Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2008
Despite its popularity in and outside cognitive linguistics, cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) has received a wide range of criticisms in the past two decades. Several metaphor researchers have criticized the methodology with which metaphor is studied (emphasizing concepts instead of words), the direction of analysis (emphasizing a top-down instead of a ...
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