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Where Metaphors Come From - Reconsidering Context in Metaphor (Hardcover)
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Where Metaphors Come From - Reconsidering Context in Metaphor (Hardcover)
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In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltan Koevecses 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. Koevecses 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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