A major insight of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) is that it added a strong, empirically testable cognitive
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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).
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