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Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Vol. 12:2 (2014) ► pp. 342–374

The nature of domains and the relationships between them in metaphorization

| University of Social Sciences, Warsaw
In 2011 I proposed a new approach to metaphor analysis and typology, based on the strict distinction between the material and phenomenological worlds. I concluded that the ultimate source domain (experiential basis) is the world of physical objects. The present paper develops these ideas, presenting a more detailed analysis of each of the metaphor types. Thus, I claim that the concrete-to-concrete metaphors are based on metonymy and abstract-to-concrete on the OBJECT schema. Abstract-to-abstract metaphorization falls into two traditional types: structural and orientational metaphors. As to the former, I show that the vague expressions “more concrete domain” or “more abstract domain” can be made clearer by considering the ontological status of the component elements of the domain: the “more concrete” domain has more elements of physical ontology. Orientational metaphors have been found to be only superficially orientational, their true objective being valuation. I conclude that all these metaphor types eventually refer to the world of physical objects for their experiential basis.
Keywords: “more concrete/more abstract” domain distinction, orientational metaphors as valuational mechanism, experiential basis, objectification, metonymy-based metaphors, typology of metaphors, OBJECT schema
Published online: 31 October 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.12.2.04szw
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