Metaphor Cognition And Culture

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139444613

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Metaphor in Culture by Zoltán Kövecses Pdf

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kövecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation.

Author : Ulrike Schröder,Milene Mendes de Oliveira,Adriana Maria Tenuta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110688351

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Metaphorical Conceptualizations by Ulrike Schröder,Milene Mendes de Oliveira,Adriana Maria Tenuta Pdf

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, metonymy and conceptual blends; (iii) the impact of culture and cognition on metaphorical lexis; (iv) the interface of pragmatics and cognition when metaphor is studied in situ, that is, in face-to-face as well as in virtual multimodal interaction; (v) the application of insights from metaphorical conceptualizations to language teaching, and (vi) recent methods for revealing (inter)cultural metaphorical conceptualizations (corpus-based approaches, gesture studies, etc.). The book brings together cognitive, functional, and (inter)cultural approaches.

Author : Zouhair Maalej
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cognition and culture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122284727

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Metaphor, Cognition and Culture by Zouhair Maalej Pdf

Author : Katharina Eder
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640915392

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Metaphor and Culture by Katharina Eder Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The first question that arises is in the context of "Metaphor and Culture" is what metaphor actually has to do with culture. This question can be answered in the way that metaphor and culture are related in many ways. Metaphor can be viewed as the ornamental use of language, and a lot about metaphor and culture arises from what we have heard or learned in school about it, such as for instance creative writers or poets who use metaphors. Since literature is a significant part of our culture, metaphor can be regarded as intimately linked to our socio-cultural field. So a possible way of relation between metaphor and culture would be literature, an exemplary manifestation of culture. However, there are in fact much more fundamental relations between metaphor and culture, which become clear when we look at some currrent thinking in anthropology, which leads us to the fact that we can view culture as a set of shared understandings that characterize smaller or larger groups of people (cf. Shore 1996, Strauss & Quinn 1997). It has to be noted that this is obviously not an exhaustive view or definition of culture, considering the fact that it leaves out real artifacts, real objects, practices, institutions, actions and so on, which people participate in and use in various cultures. However, it integrates a large part of it, namely the shared understanding that human beings have in connection with all of these "things."

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521541468

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Metaphor and Emotion by Zoltán Kövecses Pdf

Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). This book challenges this simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent "constructed" from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. The view proposed here demonstrates how cultural aspects of emotions, metaphorical language about the emotions, and human physiology in emotion are all part of an intergrated system and shows how this system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion.

Author : Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811057533

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Nature, Metaphor, Culture by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy Pdf

This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices. It combines theoretical notions with analytical devices and has a multidisciplinary essence: it relies on the latest Cultural Linguistic findings, employing spatial semantics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and ethnography. The book addresses key questions including: How is nature conceptualized by a folk cultural group? How are emotions and other mental states expressed via nature imagery with respect to metaphors and construal schemas? The author argues that folksongs reflect the Hungarian peasant communities’ specific treatment of emotions, captured in an underlying cultural schema ‘reservedness.’ This schema is grounded in principals of morality and tradition, and governs the various levels of representation. The main topics discussed are related to two core issues: cultural metaphors and cultural schemas of construal in folksongs. It provides a detailed example, based on over 1000 folksongs, of how a cultural group’s cognition can be analyzed and better understood through a representative corpus-based linguistic approach. The research is also pioneering in constructing a comprehensive analysis framework adapted to folk poetry, and offers an example of how cultural conceptualizations can be investigated in various discourse types. Last but not least, the book offers insights into the work of Hungarian linguists and folklorists concerning cultural conceptualizations, which have largely been unavailable in English.

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs,Gerard Steen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236814

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Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics by Raymond W. Gibbs,Gerard Steen Pdf

This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of lexical analysis of linguistic metaphors and how it can be fruitfully applied to a characterization of the conceptual domains of smell and economics. Three chapters deal with theoretical aspects of conceptual metaphor, one of which is a commissioned chapter on the relation between conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual blending. Finally there are five chapters presenting novel theoretical issues and empirical findings about the relation between conceptual metaphor and culture. This book is hence a wide-ranging sample of current approaches to metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics, with some chapters breaking new grounds for future research.

Author : Ning Yu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110213348

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The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective by Ning Yu Pdf

This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a heart-head dichotomy. In contrast to the Western dualist view, Chinese takes on a more holistic view that sees the heart as the center of both emotions and thought. The contrast characterizes two cultural traditions that have developed different conceptualizations of person, self, and agent of cognition. The concept of "heart" lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language. Diachronically, this book traces the roots of its conception in ancient Chinese philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine. Along the synchronic dimension, it not only makes a systematic analysis of conventionalized expressions that reflect the underlying cultural models and conceptualizations, as well as underlying conceptual metaphors and metonymies, but also attempts a textual analysis of an essay and a number of poems for their metaphoric and metonymic images and imports contributing to the cultural models and conceptualizations. It also takes up a comparative perspective that sheds light on similarities and differences between Western and Chinese cultures in the understanding of the heart, brain, body, mind, self, and person. The book contributes to the understanding of the embodied nature of human cognition situated in its cultural context, and the relationship between language, culture, and cognition.

Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199774897

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Language, Mind, and Culture by Zoltan Kovecses Pdf

How do we make sense of our experience? In order to understand how we construct meaning, the varied and complex relationships among language, mind, and culture need to be understood. While cognitive linguists typically study the cognitive aspects of language, and linguistic anthropologists typically study language and culture, Language, Mind, and Culture is the first book to combine all three and provide an account of meaning-making in language and culture by examining the many cognitive operations in this process. In addition to providing a comprehensive theory of how we can account for meaning making, Language, Mind, and Culture is a textbook for anyone interested in the fascinating issues surrounding the relationship between language, mind, and culture. Further, the book is also a "practical" introduction: most of the chapters include exercises that help the student understand the theoretical issues. No prior knowledge of linguistics is assumed, and the material is accessible and useful to students in a variety of other disciplines, such as anthropology, English, sociology, philosophy, psychology, communication, rhetoric, and others. Language, Mind, and Culture helps us make sense of not only linguistic meaning but also of some of the important personal and social issues we encounter in our lives as members of particular cultures and as human beings.

Author : Michael Carrithers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1845454294

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Culture, Rhetoric, and the Vicissitudes of Life by Michael Carrithers Pdf

Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the volume's wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.

Author : Ning Yu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722353X

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The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor by Ning Yu Pdf

This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, in order to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. It focuses on metaphors of emotion, the "time as space" metaphor and the Event Structure Metaphor.

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs,Gerard J. Steen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027237286

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Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics by Raymond W. Gibbs,Gerard J. Steen Pdf

This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of lexical analysis of linguistic metaphors and how it can be fruitfully applied to a characterization of the conceptual domains of smell and economics. Three chapters deal with theoretical aspects of conceptual metaphor, one of which is a commissioned chapter on the relation between conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual blending. Finally there are five chapters presenting novel theoretical issues and empirical findings about the relation between conceptual metaphor and culture. This book is hence a wide-ranging sample of current approaches to metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics, with some chapters breaking new grounds for future research.

Author : Erich Adalbert Berendt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027223769

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Metaphors for Learning by Erich Adalbert Berendt Pdf

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Author : Marcus Callies,Marta Degani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350157552

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Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes by Marcus Callies,Marta Degani Pdf

This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture by exploring metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes that have developed in a wide range of geographic, socio-historical and cultural settings around the world. In line with the interdisciplinary breadth of this endeavour, the contributions are grounded in Cognitive (Socio)Linguistics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Cultural Linguistics. Drawing on different research methodologies, including corpus linguistics, elicitation techniques, and interviews, chapters analyse a variety of naturalistic data and text types, such as online language, narratives, political speeches and literary works. Examining both the cultural conceptualisations underlying the use of figurative language and the linguistic-cultural specificity of metaphor and its variation, the studies are presented in contexts of both language contact and second language usage. Adding to the debate on the interplay of universal and culture-specific grounding of conceptual metaphor, Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes advances research in a previously neglected sphere of study in the field of World Englishes.

Author : Beate Hampe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107198333

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Metaphor by Beate Hampe Pdf

This book brings together leading metaphor researchers from a number of disciplines to unite the field of metaphor theory.