Chapter 2
Event Structure Metaphors
Conceptualizing events through bodily experience
Article outline
- Conceptual Metaphor Theory
- The roots of Conceptual Metaphor Theory in Western philosophical history
- Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Basic ideas and principles
- Mappings
- Invariance principle
- Partial mappings
- Inheritance hierarchies
- Unidirectionality
- Experiential basis
- Image schemas
- CMT and conceptual metonymy
- The psychological reality of CMT and competing metaphors in bilinguals
- CMT and American Sign Language
- Event-Structure Metaphors: Location and object versions
- Location Event-Structure Metaphor
- Object Event-Structure Metaphor
- Cross-linguistic studies of Event-Structure Metaphors
- ESMs across spoken languages
- Location-ESM and ASL
- Object-ESM and ASL
- The study of ESMs in translation
- Chapter summary
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Notes