The recent studies on metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson 1980; Johnson 1987; Lakoff & Turner 1989; Sweetser 1990) have proved it to be an important language device that reflects the cognitive source of human thinking. These experientialists claim that metaphors in our languages mirror our ordinary conceptual system and treat metaphors as conventionalized cognitive structure. Adopting the experientialis...

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s theory of metaphor (1980, 1999) provides a basis for describing everyday cognitive structures using linguistic models and thus, making it possible to uncover both individual and collective patterns of thought and action. Lakoff and Johnson have not, however, developed a workable system for carrying out qualitative research. This paper outlines the fundamentals o...

La publicación del libro titulado Metáforas de la vida cotidiana “en versión lengua española” es una traducción Carmen Gonzáles Marín, quien mantuvo los ejemplos original en inglesa, tales como “Una discusión guerra”, “El tiempo dinero”, “Las expresiones lingüísticas son recipientes para significados”, “Feliz arriba”, “La inflación persona”, ideas comidas”, teorías edificios”, “Mente máquina”, ...

The theory of metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980a, 1980b) and Lakoff (1993) involves a mapping of conceptual structure from one semantic domain to another. We investigate properties of these conceptual domain mappings by comparing them to morphological derivational relations. Schematicity and productivity are properties that Bybee (1985) and Langacker (1987) propose for characterizin...

Three experiments explored whether conceptual mappings in conventional metaphors are productive, by testing whether the comprehension of novel metaphors was facilitated by first reading conceptually related conventional metaphors. The first experiment, a replication and extension of Keysar et al. [Keysar, B., Shen, Y., Glucksberg, S., Horton, W. (2000). Conventional language: How metaphorical i...

this research intended to determine whether english and persian men and women were different with respect to the use of intensifiers, hedges and tag questions. to conduct the study, r. lakoff's (1975) ideas concerning linguistic differences between males and females were taken into account. in order to gather the most natural-like data, 6 english and 8 persian film• scripts with a family a...

This study is a cognitive stylistic/poetic analysis of one Turkish literature’s best-known poems ‘Sessiz Gemi’ (Silent Ship) by Yahya Kemal Beyatl?. More specifically, based on the premises Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) and Blending (Fauconnier Turner, 1998, 2002), aims to identify conceptual devices strategies used in construction interpretation poem. The reveals that...