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Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English

Michal Janowski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

148 Seiten

2009
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-59089-8 (ISBN)

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The book is devoted to conceptual metaphors in English according to the level of abstraction in their target domains. The findings reveal a striking difference between mappings onto concrete domains and mappings onto abstract ones. In metaphors with concrete target domains, a preexisting similarity between the source and target concepts can be revealed or highlighted. In contrast, when the target domain is abstract, the similarity between the source and target concepts is created rather than merely revealed or highlighted. To some degree, creation of similarity is possible even with concrete domains, but in abstract ones it is necessary, not optional. This is because abstract concepts have little or no schematic structure in the first place. Since abstract concepts are classified in language as kinds of physical objects, they inherit rudimentary physical properties, such as density, weight, temperature, etc. Looking at metaphors from this perspective allows us to refine the existing theories of metaphor.

The Author: Michał Janowski is a Senior Lecturer at Kazimierz Wielki University Bydgoszcz (Poland). His main research interests include cognitive linguistics, the English language, studies of meaning and metaphor, and theories of the mind and consciousness. He received his Ph.D. Degree from Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland) in 2007.

Contents : Abstract concepts - Axiology - Blending theory - Conceptual metaphor theory - English - Image schemas/schemata - Invariance hypothesis - Metaphoric mapping - Nominalization - Noun - Objectification - Reification - Source domain - Target domain.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.1.2009
Reihe/Serie	Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature ; 26
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Jacek Fisiak
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	210 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Abstraction • Englisch • English • features • Fisiak • Hardcover, Softcover / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft • HC/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft • image schema • Inheritance • Jacek • Janowski • Kognitive Linguistik • Mappings • Metapher • Metaphor • metaphoric • Michal • noun • Theorie
ISBN-10	3-631-59089-X / 363159089X
ISBN-13	978-3-631-59089-8 / 9783631590898
Zustand	Neuware