Cognitive Studies Of Metaphor
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Cognitive Studies of Metaphor
1. Introduction
Metaphor has been an important topic of research and analysis from Aristotle to the present. For more than 2000 years, it was generally recognized as a fundamental figure of speech, especially in literature. In contemporary research, however, metaphor is also seen as a “figure of thought”[1], and the study carried out by Lakoff expanded its traditional territory from rhetoric and literary criticism to various fields that overlap, to different degrees, on the common ground of cognitive science, including linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology.
In fact, it was since the publication of Lakoff and Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By and their subsequent work that there has been a metaphormania. The cognitive turn of metaphorology is first initiated by Richards, elaborated and developed by Black...