Conceptual Metaphor Theory
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This monograph employs conceptual metaphor theory to investigate philosophy of mind and and the materiality of meditation systems in three c.4th-5th-century CE Sanskrit meditation treatises: the Patanjalayogasastra, the... more
Building type explores interpretation as a creative strategy for developing experimental design processes that translate architecture into type. The research sits within the experimental area of the contemporary type design context. The... more
This paper investigates how large multinational corporations use multimodal meaning-making resources to communicate a trustworthy corporate identity. It combines insights from Forceville’s work on pictorial and multimodal metaphor... more
The affective bond between an infant and its caregiver, the so-called mother-infant tie, was analyzed by various reputable psychologists (e.g., Ainsworth, Clark, Erikson, Anna Freud, Harlow, Klein, Spitz, and Winnicott) but both the basic... more
By examining the trans-disciplinary neologisms called "terminological junctions" in writings of Arakawa and Gins, one may find adequate conditions for making visible, and perhaps resolving a central paradox in the thinking of Gilles... more
This article is an attempt to apply MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) for identifying and extracting metaphors used in the educational discourse of teaching the Persian language to first and second grades of elementary schools in Naghedeh. The... more
The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor argues that we need metaphors in order to express abstract concepts and complex experiences such as emotions. These metaphors related to emotions are reenactments of sensory-motor experiences. For... more
short critical review of the use of metaphors in mind-talk
This study applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory to the pedagogy and activity of the college composition classroom by means of collecting and analyzing instructor and student metaphors for literacy. The research explores: What are the... more
Our experience of physical matter provides a firm experiential basis for the conceptual organization of language and its functional uses in narrative and argumentative contexts. Nouns typically denote UNITS OF THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE – the... more
A substantial number of studies of metaphor have rejected the notion that a statement must be literally false in order for it to be metaphorically interpreted. Self-evidently true statements that can, under appropriate circumstances, be... more
This thesis explores the association between natural phenomena and deities in Mesopotamian religion. Within Assyriology, expressions such as »Anu is the sky god«, »Enlil is the storm god« and »Girra is the fire god« are being used as if... more
Presentation at “The Way We Think: A Research Symposium on Conceptual Integration and the Nature and Origin of Cognitively Modern Humans.” University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Demark, August 19-23, 2002. Document includes Supplemental... more
Cohesion is a semantic notion that refers to non-structural text-forming meaning inherent in relations of connectedness which may or may not be linguistically coded. It is the means by which one element is construed by reference to... more
This thesis centres on an examination of the music and commentary of Thomas Adès. Though academics and journalists alike have noted the importance of Adès’s programmatic descriptions, there is little work that considers his music... more
There are many stylistic attempts to examine the trauma in 9/11 literature(Jaff and Al-Jumaili 2020; Al-Jumaili and Jaff 2020; Jaff 2020), however, no study attempted to discuss Eric Walters' We All Fall Down (2006) stylistically.... more
By focussing on the dichotomized metaphorical strategy and myth creation, this study aims to analyze how the U.S. and the European Union (EU) media respond to the entrenched metaphor of migration and refugee “crisis”. In this respect, the... more
In this article, we describe how antithesis and metaphoric conceptualization interact with each other and which rhetorical effects this interaction brings about. We illustrate this interaction with an analysis of seventeen graffiti... more
Although musical structure is commonly perceived as moving, its motivation remains a debated issue. Conceptual Metaphor Theory approaches assume that musical motion is motivated by conceptual metaphors like time is motion and change is... more
В данной статье автор излагает опыт применения процедуры идентификации метафоры в тексте, разработанной исследователями Амстердамского свободного университета, к библейским текстам. Цель статьи — показать, что современные методы... more
This chapter examines the local traditions (through Pausanias and Theognis), discourse environment, and positionality of Megara to establish abstract principles of the Megarian worldview, and then applies those principles to the local... more
U kognitivno-lingvističkom pristupu metafora ima mnogo šire značenje od njenog tradicionalnog razumevanja kao književnog sredstva. Konceptualne metafore oblikuju ne samo naš način komunikacije, već i način na koji razmišljamo i reagujemo.... more
Metaphern – verstanden als »Ausdruck einer Sache mit den Mitteln einer anderen« – spielen in Therapie und Beratung seit jeher eine bedeutsame Rolle. Ausgehend von den Thesen von Lakoff und Johnson, dass wir unvermeidlich in Metaphern... more
Despite the large volume of material published on the cognitive potential of metaphor, little has been done to assess how claims made within the field draw upon continental philosophy. This is remedied in this book. I examine the... more
This article is very much an excursion into methodology and possible new avenues for the study of Tantra. It will consider recent insights from the growing field of the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), especially the modern... more
Research in cognitive linguistics over the past three decades has contributed much to our understanding of processes of meaning construction, and to the role mappings between different domains play in the imaginative resources manifested... more
This paper raises the issue of the generality of the application of particular source domains to particular target domains and suggests a new, theoretically useful notion for this purpose: that of the "scope of metaphor"; that is, the... more
This research aims at analyzing the conceptual metaphors of Hope Aspiration or Imagination in Thai and the conceptual system of Thai people, derived from the usage of Metaphors by Cognitive Linguistics Theory. The both data in this... more
A giant book of Greek spells, that often were metaphoric and symbolic, rather than an actual spell. The main idea is that some of the so-called spells are theological, mythological legalisms of considerable merit. Some of the... more
Review of Musolff, A. (2016). Political Metaphor Analysis. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
The time is long past when scholars would complain that very little had been written on metaphor in translation: fifty years have now gone by since researchers started probing this topic, and a considerable body of writing now exists... more
Psycholinguistic research has shown that conceptual metaphors influence how people produce and understand language (e.g., Gibbs 1994, 2017a; Kövecses, 2010; Jacobs & Kinder 2017). So far, investigations have mostly paid attention to... more