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- MetaphorEmbodied Cognition and Discourse
- Metaphor
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Metaphor in Cognition
- Part II More than Metaphor
- Part III Metaphor in Discourse
- Part IV Salient Metaphor
- Epilogue (A Personal View)
- 17 The Embodied and Discourse Views of Metaphor: Why These Are Not So Different and How They Can Be Brought Closer Together
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index
17 - The Embodied and Discourse Views of Metaphor: Why These Are Not So Different and How They Can Be Brought Closer Together
from Epilogue (A Personal View)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2017
- MetaphorEmbodied Cognition and Discourse
- Metaphor
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Metaphor in Cognition
- Part II More than Metaphor
- Part III Metaphor in Discourse
- Part IV Salient Metaphor
- Epilogue (A Personal View)
- 17 The Embodied and Discourse Views of Metaphor: Why These Are Not So Different and How They Can Be Brought Closer Together
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Metaphor scholars have long debated whether the possibility that metaphor is “conceptual” or possibly “embodied” ignores crucial social and linguistic facts about metaphor in discourse. Scholars adopting either of the “embodied” and “discourse” views of metaphor typically advance different theories on the origins, motivations, functions, and uses of metaphors in language and thought. These different theoretical perspectives are also generally studied by scholars from different academic disciplines that employ very different empirical methods (e.g. discourse analyses vs. experimental techniques). My aim in this chapter is to show how these different perspectives are closely related given (a) the embodied nature of metaphoric discourse and (b) the social context for all embodied action. Rather than arguing for the superiority of one approach over the other, my plea is for a better integration of these views to capture the complex realities of metaphoric experience.
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- MetaphorEmbodied Cognition and Discourse, pp. 319 - 334Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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