The Career of Metaphor.

Bowdle, Brian F.; Gentner, Dedre

doi:10.1037/0033-295x.112.1.193

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“…This issue is a concern for many other psychological theories of metaphor that are not conducted within either the cognitive linguistic or relevance theory frameworks (e.g., Bowdle and Gentner, 2005;Glucksberg, 2001). Of course, a single metaphorical utterance does not exploit all the elements that could potentially be mapped from source to target domain.…”

Section: Pragmatics and Online Metaphor Usementioning

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Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory

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Gibbs

2008

Journal of Pragmatics

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Contemporary theories of metaphor differ in many dimensions, including the discipline they originate from (e.g., linguistics, psychology, philosophy), and whether they are developed primarily within a cognitive or pragmatic theoretical framework. This article evaluates two directions of metaphor research within linguistics, cognitive linguistics and relevance theory, which both aim to capture essential aspects of the reason for metaphor, and how people ordinarily use and understand metaphor in daily life. We argue, contrary to most received opinion, that cognitive linguistics and relevance theory provide complementary perspectives on metaphor. Both theories offer important insights into the role of metaphor in cognition and language use, and suggest detailed hypotheses on metaphor understanding that surely are part of a comprehensive theory of metaphor. #

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Section: Pragmatics and Online Metaphor Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory

Tendahl

Gibbs

2008

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Thus, as a consequence of the debates on the empirical foundations of Lakoff and Johnson's theoretical framework (cf. Murphy vs. Gibbs in Cognition, 1996 and the considerable success of rival theoretical frameworks (Glucksberg, 2001;Gentner, 1997;Bowdle and Gentner, 2005) a new direction has evolved: psycholinguistic research of conceptual metaphors (Gibbs, 2006(Gibbs, , 2008.…”

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“…Instead, she proposes the heuristics according to which differences in processing times related to different types of metaphors should be interpreted as signs of different modes of metaphor processing (cf. Bowdle and Gentner, 2005;Gentner and Bowdle, 2008). On the basis of this heuristics, she argues for the result that since in the case of novel metaphors, both domains are at the same level of abstraction, i.e.…”

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Data, problems, heuristics and results in cognitive metaphor research

2012

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Cognitive metaphor research is characterised by the diversity of rival theories. Starting from this observation, the paper focuses on the problem of how the unity and diversity of cognitive theories of metaphor can be accounted for. The first part of the paper outlines a suitable metascientific approach which emerges as a modification of B. von Eckardt's notion of research framework. In the second part, by the help of this approach, some aspects of the sophisticated relationship between Lakoff and Johnson's, Glucksberg's, and Gentner's theories are discussed. The main finding is that the data, the problems, the heuristics and the hypotheses which have been partly shaped by the rivals contribute to the development of the particular theories to a considerable extent.

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“…The most popular theories on metaphor understanding are the categorization view [3], the comparison view [4] and three hybrid views -the conventionality view [5], the aptness view [6] and the interpretive diversity view [7].…”

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Simile or Not Simile?

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Rzepka

Araki

et al. 2016

Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics

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Abstract. In this paper we propose a method of automatic distinction between two types of formally identical expressions in Japanese: similes and "metonymical comparisosn", i.e. literal comparisons that include metonymic relations between elements. Expression like "kujira no you na chiisai me" can be translated into English as "eyes small as whale's", while in Japanese, due to the lack of possessive case, it can be misunderstood as "eyes small as a whale". The reason behind this is the presence of metonymic relation between components of such expressions. In the abovegiven example the word "whale" is a metonymy and represents "whale's eye". This is naturally understandable for humans, although formally difficult to detect by automatic algorithms, as both types of expressions (similes and metonymical comparisons) realize the same template. In this work we present a system able to distinguish between these two types of expressions. The system takes a Japanese expession as input and uses the Internet to check possessive relations between its elements. We propose a method of calculating a score based on co-occurrence of source and target pairs in Google (e.g. "whale's eye"). Evaluation experiment showed that the system distinguishes between similes and metonimical comparisons with the accuracy of 74%. We discuss the results and give some ideas for the future.

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The Career of Metaphor.

Cited by 950 publications

References 122 publications

Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory

Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory

Data, problems, heuristics and results in cognitive metaphor research

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