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Inconsistency in Conceptual Metaphor Theory

open access: yesCognitive Semantics, 2023
Abstract Although Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) theory of conceptual metaphor has been extremely popular and successful, it has been criticized in many respects, one of which is its alleged inconsistency. This criticism presupposes that the principle of non-contradiction is the most important pillar of scientific theorizing because its violation turns ...
Kertész, András, Rákosi, Csilla
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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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Formalizing contemporary conceptual metaphor theory

open access: yesConstructions and Frames, 2016
This paper describes an innovative formalization of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and its implementation in a structured metaphor repository. Central to metaphor analysis is the development of an internal structure of frames and relations between frames, based on an Embodied Construction Grammar framework, which then informs the structure of metaphors and
Elise Stickles   +3 more
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Studies in conceptual metaphor theory

open access: yes, 2014
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) is one of the most significant scientific perspectives in contemporary linguistics. Emerging from the cognitive shift in the language sciences, CMT investigates how metaphoric conceptualization motivates language structure and use.
PONTEROTTO, DIANE MARIA, Ponterotto, D M
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Reanimating the Body in Conceptual Metaphor Theory

2019
This chapter critically reviews the traditional notion of embodiment in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), arguing that it is characterized by a somewhat inflexible view of the way the human body shapes one’s thinking. Probing more recent developments in CMT, including dynamic systems approaches and cross-cultural studies of metaphor, and confronting ...
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Explainable Metaphor Identification Inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon but also reflects the concept projection between source and target domains in human cognition. Previous sequence tagging-based metaphor identification methods could not model the concept projection, resulting in a limitation that the outputs of these models are unexplainable in the predictions of the ...
Mengshi Ge, Rui Mao 0010, Erik Cambria
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Extended conceptual metaphor theory

Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2020
The phenomenon known as metaphor is an extremely complex mental event - we cannot capture its complexity if we tie ourselves to existing standard views on metaphor. This book offers fresh insight into metaphor, updating an established theory, conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), in the context of current cognitive linguistic theory, and clarifying many of
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