Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy
Title | Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Verena Haser |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2011-12-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110918242 |
The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues connected with experientialism and on cognitive approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Particular emphasis is placed on the works of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, but other cognitivists are also taken into consideration. Verena Haser proposes a new approach to the distinction between metaphor and metonymy, which contrasts with familiar cognitivist models, but also builds on some insights gained in cognitivist research. She also offers an account of metaphorical transfer which dispenses with the notion of conceptual metaphors in the sense of Lakoff and Johnson. She argues that conceptual metaphors are not a useful construct for explaining metaphorical transfer, and that the clustering of metaphorical expressions is better accounted for in terms of family resemblances between metaphorical expressions. Another major goal of this work is a reassessment of the relationship between experientialism and traditional Western philosophy (often subsumed under the vague term "objectivism"). This book contrasts with most other critical approaches to experientialism by providing close readings of key passages from the works of Lakoff and Johnson, which enables the author to pinpoint theory-internal inconsistencies and other shortcomings not noted in previous publications. This book will be relevant to students and scholars interested in semantics and cognitive linguistics, and also in psychology and philosophy of language.
Metaphor and Philosophy
Title | Metaphor and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Johnson |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 131775896X |
During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are startling because of their radical implications for metaphor research and because they require us to rethink some of our most fundamental received notions of meaning, concepts, and reason. Many of the theoretical assumptions that guided earlier generations who worked on metaphor have been undermined by this new research, which has profound implications for philosophy. More specifically, the level of methodological sophistication of empirical studies of metaphor has increased markedly, making possible rigorous, detailed analyses of how metaphors actually structure conceptualization and reasoning. In addition, professionals have learned that metaphor is not merely a linguistic phenomenon but more fundamentally a conceptual and experiential process that structures the world. The articles in this special issue make significant contributions to these advances.
Metaphors We Live By
Title | Metaphors We Live By PDF eBook |
Author | George Lakoff |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2008-12-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0226470997 |
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
Metaphors We Live By
Title | Metaphors We Live By PDF eBook |
Author | George Lakoff |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1980-11-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780226468006 |
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
Metaphor in Focus
Title | Metaphor in Focus PDF eBook |
Author | Francesca Ervas |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2014-09-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1443867314 |
This book is a philosophical guide on metaphor use. Previous research concerning metaphors has focused on either the theoretical-linguistic problems or the uses in specific research fields. Although these domains share some common interests, there has been little cross-communication. The aim of this volume is to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the empirical side of the research on metaphor use, by analysing the role of metaphor over different domains of use. Therefore, while adopting a theoretical-philosophical point of view, the volume also presents the interdisciplinary connections between philosophy and other academic areas such as linguistics, cognitive science, discourse analysis, communication studies, didactics, economics, arts and political science.
Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Sartre's Philosophy
Title | Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Sartre's Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Pérez i Brufau |
Publisher | LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2011-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783847310648 |
This dissertation deals with Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Experientialist philosophy by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson and Existentialist philosophy by Jean-Paul Sartre. In the first chapter we study Lakoff and Johnson's works on Metaphor (1980, 1999) and we also analyse the most important revisions, extensions and criticisms related to the theory. In the second chapter we make a comparison between experientialism and existentialism by means of the concept of imagination - a key component of both theories. In the third and last chapter we examine the central metaphors that are revealed in the most important book of existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre's (1943a) L'etre et el Neant. As if it were another chapter in Lakoff & Johnson (1999) we will pay attention to this very important book of Sartre's in order to discover which metaphors sustain his system. The analysis will be based on Lakoff & Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Lakoff & Johnson's (1999) key idea that metaphor is an essential skill that allows us to build philosophical systems. Finally, in a concluding section we will summarize the key proposals defended throughout this work."
Metaphor and Metaphorology
Title | Metaphor and Metaphorology PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Taverniers |
Publisher | Academia Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Metaphor |
ISBN | 9789038202846 |