Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Metaphor in Culture
- 1 Introduction: Metaphor and the Issue of Universality
- PART I UNIVERSAL METAPHORS
- PART II DIMENSIONS OF METAPHOR VARIATION
- PART III ASPECTS OF METAPHOR INVOLVED IN VARIATION
- 6 How Components of Conceptual Metaphor Are Involved in Variation
- 7 Conceptual Metaphors and Their Linguistic Expression in Different Languages
- 8 Metaphor in Social–Physical Reality
- 9 Metaphors and Cultural Models
- PART IV CAUSES OF METAPHOR VARIATION
- References
- Index
6 - How Components of Conceptual Metaphor Are Involved in Variation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Metaphor in Culture
- 1 Introduction: Metaphor and the Issue of Universality
- PART I UNIVERSAL METAPHORS
- PART II DIMENSIONS OF METAPHOR VARIATION
- PART III ASPECTS OF METAPHOR INVOLVED IN VARIATION
- 6 How Components of Conceptual Metaphor Are Involved in Variation
- 7 Conceptual Metaphors and Their Linguistic Expression in Different Languages
- 8 Metaphor in Social–Physical Reality
- 9 Metaphors and Cultural Models
- PART IV CAUSES OF METAPHOR VARIATION
- References
- Index
Summary
As we saw in chapter 1, the cognitive linguistic view of metaphors consists of several components. For convenience, here they are again:
Source domain
Target domain
Experiential basis
Neural structures corresponding to (1) and (2) in the brain
Relationships between the source and the target
Metaphorical linguistic expressions
Mappings
Entailments
Blends
Nonlinguistic realizations
Cultural models
We can conceive of these components as aspects of metaphor.
In previous chapters, we have already seen how some of these aspects are involved in metaphor variation. I dealt with the experiential basis of metaphor in chapters 2 and 3, and with the relationship of source and target in chapter 4, where I discussed the notions of range of target and scope of source. I will say more about the experiential basis of metaphor in later chapters (especially in chapter 10) and will treat the other two issues (i.e., range of target, scope of source) only briefly here. Moreover, some of the aspects of metaphor are such robust parts of the issue of variation that they require treatment in separate chapters. For this reason, I will discuss the linguistic expression of metaphor (in chapter 7), the nonlinguistic realization of metaphor (in chapter 8), cultural models (in chapter 9), and conceptual integration (or blending) (in chapter 11) in separate chapters.
At this point, the question for us is: Which of these aspects are involved in metaphor variation, and how? The answer is simple: all of them. The main goal of the present chapter is to demonstrate by means of a few examples how the various aspects of metaphor participate in variation.
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- Metaphor in CultureUniversality and Variation, pp. 117 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005