According to Gibbs (2006) “there is still insufficient attention paid to the exact ways that cultural beliefs shape both people’s understandings of their embodied experiences and the conceptual metaphors which arise from these experiences.” For example, the conceptual metaphor EMOTIONS ARE FLUIDS WITHIN THE BODY seems to underlie a wide variety of metaphorical expressions used by speakers from ...

Metaphor has been studied for centuries, but traditionally it confined to the field of rhetoric, and seen as a rhetorical method. However, with development modern society advancement cognitive linguistics, some linguistics researchers believe that metaphor is no longer just linguistic phenomenon, also mode thinking. The conceptual system contains rich sufficient cultural information, which make...

We start by characterizing the role of a set of invariant mappings within a semantic framework for metaphor interpretation. Such rules are defaults and have previously been identified by our group as invariant mappings adjuncts to any conceptual metaphor. We provide a formal description of several invariant mappings that transfer information such as causation and event degrees, and discuss some...

the present article explains the notion of symbol and metaphor in ricoeur's philosophy and tries to consider the relation between them in his whole philosophical perspective to answer the following questions: whether this two notions are the same or each one belongs to completely different realms? what kind of relation is there between tham? whether there is any conceptual or functional re...

This paper presents an outline of a classification of metaphor use in text that can aid the interpretation of data obtained from corpora. The classification is exemplified on examples from a developing corpus of both public and academic discourse on educational change. The paper claims that it is necessary to distinguish between metaphor as an organizing principle of the conceptual system and i...

Cognitive linguists have so far paid a great deal of attention to the remarkable universality of many conceptual metaphors. However, their theories fail to account for the equally impressive diversity of metaphorical conceptualization both across and within cultures. The present paper is an attempt to lay down the foundations of a theory of metaphor that is capable of simultaneously accounting ...