9 thoughts on “ Conceptual Metaphor ”

1. In cog­ni­tive lin­guis­tics, con­cep­tual metaphor, or cog­ni­tive metaphor, refers to the un­der­stand­ing of one idea, or con­cep­tual do­main, in terms of an­other. An ex­am­ple of this is the un­der­stand­ing of quan­tity in terms of di­rec­tion­al­ity (e.g. "the price of peace is ris­ing").

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2. University of Kentucky UKnowledge Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics Linguistics LINGUISTIC AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS OF ‘HEART’ IN.

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3. A conceptual metaphor is a way of making an abstract idea or experience more easily understandable by framing it in terms of another more concrete concept (Kövecses, ). According to Author: Zoltán Kövecses.

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4. An orientational metaphor is a metaphor (or figurative comparison) that involves spatial relationships (such as UP-DOWN, IN-OUT, ON-OFF, and FRONT-BACK). Orientational metaphor (a figure that "organizes a whole system of concepts with respect to one another") is one of the three overlapping categories of conceptual metaphors identified by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors We .

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5. Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life, Paperback by Gibbs, Jr, Raymond W., ISBN , ISBN , Brand New, Free shipping in the US The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities.

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6. Conceptual metaphor: In cognitive linguistics, metaphor is defined as understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain; for example, using one person's life experience to understand a different person's experience. A conceptual domain can be any coherent organization of experience. This idea, and a detailed examination of the underlying processes, was first extensively explored by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors .

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7. A conceptual metaphor—also known as a generative metaphor—is a metaphor (or figurative comparison) in which one idea (or conceptual domain) is understood in terms of another. In cognitive linguistics, the conceptual domain from which we draw the metaphorical expressions required to understand another conceptual domain is known as the source domain.

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8. Conceptual metaphor theorists claim that all metaphors both hide and highlight aspects of the target domain. For instance, the conceptual metaphor understanding is seizing, discussed by Lakoff and Turner () suggests that an idea is a concrete object .

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9. In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of orswitunsirambiconmilithiliport.xyzinfo example of this is the understanding of quantity in terms of directionality (e.g. "the prices are rising").. A conceptual domain can be any coherent organization of human experience. The regularity with which different languages employ the.

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