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Formalizing contemporary conceptual metaphor theory
Constructions and Frames, 2016This 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
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Visual metaphor in extended conceptual metaphor theory
Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 2020Abstract My goal in the chapter is to examine a variety of visual experiences that appear to evoke visual metaphors. This is a range of experience types that extends from “sign-like” visual experiences to “non-sign-like” visual experiences. I propose that visual metaphors are evoked by paintings through winner’s podiums all the way to cityscapes and ...
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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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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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Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Discourse Processes, 2011A major revolution in the study of metaphor occurred 30 years ago with the introduction of “conceptual metaphor theory” (CMT). Unlike previous theories of metaphor and metaphorical meaning, CMT proposed that metaphor is not just an aspect of language, but a fundamental part of human thought.
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2006
In a radical departure from theories based on digital, amodal accounts of cognition and language, Lakoff and Johnson (1980) proposed an account of metaphor as fundamentally conceptual, arguing that familiar linguistic metaphors are but surface manifestations of underlying conceptual relationships.
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In a radical departure from theories based on digital, amodal accounts of cognition and language, Lakoff and Johnson (1980) proposed an account of metaphor as fundamentally conceptual, arguing that familiar linguistic metaphors are but surface manifestations of underlying conceptual relationships.
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Standard and Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory
2021In the chapter, I describe the main features of what can be taken to be “standard” conceptual metaphor theory (as proposed by Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999), alongside what can be called extended conceptual metaphor theory (as proposed by Kovecses 2020).
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Metaphorical Idioms in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Yearbook of PhraseologyAbstract In Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Kövecses, 2020), I offered a comprehensive overhaul of “standard” conceptual metaphor theory. The present paper attempts to demonstrate how the new view of CMT can handle metaphorical idioms. To this end, I analyze four metaphorical idioms from the thematic area of money (throw money about,
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Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Abstract In the chapter, I provide an account of metaphorical proverbs within the new framework of extended conceptual metaphor theory, or ECMT, for short (Kövecses 2020). I rely especially on the multilevel and contextualist aspects of this view.openaire +1 more source
Studies in conceptual metaphor theory
2014Conceptual 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.
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Book review: Extended conceptual metaphor theory
The Social Science Journal, 2023Xiayidan Telaiti, Shaohua Wang
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