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Review of Cognitive LinguisticsVol. 18:1 (2020) ► pp.112–130
An extended view of conceptual metaphor theory
A major insight of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) is that it added a strong, empirically testable cognitive dimension to the study of metaphor that is capable of changing the way we think about metaphor not only in language, but also thought and action, and, ultimately, the way we do philosophy (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999). In the paper, I argue that CMT itself needs to be changed in several ways. In particular, I suggest (1) that it has to be given a much more elaborate contextual component than is currently available, (2) that even its cognitive dimension needs to be refined, (3) that it requires a component that can explain the actual usages of metaphors in natural discourse, and (4), and most significantly, that it needs to be changed in such a way that the modifications under (1), (2), and (3) can be integrated into a unified and coherent theory of metaphor. The paper is based on my forthcoming book Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Kövecses, 2020).
Keywords: extended CMT, contextual factors, schematicity hierarchy, mental spaces in CMT, metaphorical meanings, social-pragmatic functions of metaphor
Article outline
- 1.Introduction: Some outstanding issues in conceptual metaphor theory
- 2.A brief demonstration of the new view: An example
- 2.1Resemblance metaphors
- 3.Components of the new view
- 4.How do the cognitive and contextual components of metaphor work together?
- 5.Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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