Where Metaphors Come From: Reconsidering Context in Metaphor - Couverture rigide

Kövecses, Zoltán

 
9780190224868: Where Metaphors Come From: Reconsidering Context in Metaphor
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ISBN 10 : 019022486X ISBN 13 : 9780190224868
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2015

Synopsis

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual metaphors are based on our bodily experience. While this is certainly true in many cases of metaphor, the role of the body in metaphor creation can and should be reinterpreted, and, consequently, the body can be seen as just one of the several contexts from which metaphors can emerge (including the situational, discourse, and conceptual-cognitive contexts) - although perhaps the dominant or crucial one.

Kövecses is a leader in CMT, and his argument in this book is more in line with what has been discovered about the nature of human cognition in recent years; namely, that human cognition is grounded in experience in multiple ways - embodiment, in a strict sense, being just one of them (see Barsalou, 2008; Gibbs, 2006; Pecher and Zwaan, 2005). In light of the present work, this is because cognition, including metaphorical cognition, is grounded in not only the body, but also in the situations in which people act and lead their lives, the discourses in which they are engaged at any time in communicating and interacting with each other, and the conceptual knowledge they have accumulated about the world in the course of their experience of it.

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À propos de l?auteur

Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University.



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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019022486X
ISBN 13 
9780190224868
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
232
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ISBN 10 :  0190656719 ISBN 13 :  9780190656713
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2016
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