Multi-Modal Metaphor: A Cognitive Survey

Metaphor is understanding one thing in terms of another. Metaphors can be experienced two types relation to their modes: monomodal and multimodal metaphors. Taking for granted that conceptual metaphor a matter thought action entails other modes than verbal/linguistic express individually or jointly. Declaring metaphors may represented non-verbally multimodally requires procedures allow us propose metaphorical identity-relationship between phenomena pertaining distinct categories. It would appear discussing need agreement on what counts as mode modality. This no easy task, since labeled complex different features. assumed, first approximation, sign system interpretable decoded using specific perception process. Agreeing upon this relating the five senses one-by-one, resulting following list: (1) pictorial visual mode; (2) aural sonic (3) olfactory (4) gustatory (5) tactile mode. Generally, kinds operations are used language. First linguistic operation includes lexical access syntactic analysis. The second kind pragmatic which not less important one. Psycholinguistic experiments show conventional idiomatic meanings processed immediately. However, quintessence language only, but our mental conceptualization domain general theory by such cross-domain mappings. Everyday an enormous umpteen