استعاره و مجاز: با رویکردی شناختی

by Antonio Barcelona, فرزان سجودی (Translator), لیلا صادقی (Translator)

The volume is a collection of essays, most of them written from a cognitive linguistics standpoint by leading specialists in the fields of conceptual metaphor and metonomy, and conceptual integration (blending). The book has two main goals. One of them is to discuss in new, provocative ways the nature of these mappings in English and their interaction (e.g. the papers by Barcelona, Feyaerts, Kövecses, Radden, Ruiz de Mendoza, or Turner and Fauconnier). The other goal is to explore by means of several detailed case studies the central role of these mappings in English: in its semantics (including semantic change), in its grammar, and in the structuring discourse (e.g. the papers by Freeman, Goossens, Haser, Niemeier, Pelyvás, or Panther and Thornburg, Ponteretto, Ungerer). The book includes an introduction and a subject index.

Of interest to students and researchers in English and theoretical linguistics, in English literature, in cognitive psychology and in cognitive science.

418 pages

First published January 6, 2000

Reviews

[Sanjuro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Conceptual metaphor theory is a subdiscipline of mine, useful in interdisciplinary work between linguistics and religious texts. For this reason, several articles in this volume are acutely relevant and helpful, and several are not. The basic idea behind the theory is that metaphor works not merely as an explanatory linguistic feature, but that metaphors actually structure our reality and motivate our behavior. As this is an academic book, I do not pretend to know how to review the articles that fall outside of my interdisciplinary interest. For example, there are articles here on marketing, grammar, and warfare, and these fall outside of my purview, and the book focuses a great deal on metonymy, which is less relevant to ancient religious texts. However, the articles that helped to clarify several features of the over theory were insightful, and I found much to utilize in my own work.