Metaphor and symbol

Metaphors and Symbols: A Comparison of C. G. Jung’s Symbol Analysis and Conceptual Metaphor Theory

a study on the relation between the notions of the symbol and metaphor in ricoeur's thought

the present article explains the notion of symbol and metaphor in ricoeur's philosophy and tries to consider the relation between them in his whole philosophical perspective to answer the following questions: whether this two notions are the same or each one belongs to completely different realms? what kind of relation is there between tham? whether there is any conceptual or functional re...

Pain as metaphor: metaphor and medicine.

Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain complicated concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's metaphors close off thinking, restricting interpretations and opinions to those of the negative kind? This paper considers the deleterious effects of destructive metaphors that cluster around pain. First, the metaphoric basis ...

Cancer as a Metaphor

Introduction: Cognitive linguists believe that metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon, and that what appears in language is just the aspect of cognitive phenomenon Metaphor is one of the basic interdisciplinary concepts that has been paid more attention to its fundamental role in various aspects of psychology, medicine, including cancer in recent years. Methods:. From the point of view of cognitiv...

Metaphor and Memory Symbolic and Connectionist Issues in Metaphor Comprehension

If metaphor is to be viewed as a fundamental cognitive agency, as recent work suggests, what ramifications does this view have for a model of semantic memory? This paper argues that if various signature phenomena of metaphor are to be given adequate computational treatment, a parallel adaptive (learning) network model of memory is required. Such a model, the Sapper framework, is described; Sapp...