Perception metaphors
by Majid, Asifa O'Meara, Carolyn San Roque, Lila Speed, Laura J.
Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience - characterised as physical and relatively concrete - should be an ideal source domain in metaphor, and a less likely target. But is this the case across diverse languages? And are some sensory modalities perhaps more concrete than others?…
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- Full title :Perception metaphors / edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque, Asifa Majid.
Summary
Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience - characterised as physical and relatively concrete - should be an ideal source domain in metaphor, and a less likely target. But is this the case across diverse languages? And are some sensory modalities perhaps more concrete than others? This volume presents critical new data on perception metaphors from over 40 languages, including many which are under-studied. Aside from the wealth of data from diverse languages - modern and historical; spoken and signed - a variety of methods (e.g., natural language corpora, experimental) and theoretical approaches are brought together. This collection highlights how perception metaphor can offer both a bedrock of common experience and a source of continuing innovation in human communication.
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- Publication Date:2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
Notes
The collection of articles in this volume came from a workshop " Perception Metaphor " organized by the editors in 2016, and held at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 382 pages ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027202000, 9027202001
- oclc:on1053904313
- LC Classification:P301.5.M48
- Dewey Decimal:401/.43
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