Book contents
- 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
- 10 The Cancer Card: Metaphor, Intimacy, and Humor in Online Interactions about the Experience of Cancer
- 11 Mappings and Narrative in Figurative Communication
- 12 Contextual Activation of Story Simulation in Metaphor Comprehension
- 13 From Image Schema to Metaphor in Discourse: The FORCE Schemas in Animation Films
- 14 Doing Metaphor: An Ecological Perspective on Metaphoricity in Discourse
- Part IV Salient Metaphor
- Epilogue (A Personal View)
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index
13 - From Image Schema to Metaphor in Discourse: The FORCE Schemas in Animation Films
from Part III - Metaphor in Discourse
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
- 10 The Cancer Card: Metaphor, Intimacy, and Humor in Online Interactions about the Experience of Cancer
- 11 Mappings and Narrative in Figurative Communication
- 12 Contextual Activation of Story Simulation in Metaphor Comprehension
- 13 From Image Schema to Metaphor in Discourse: The FORCE Schemas in Animation Films
- 14 Doing Metaphor: An Ecological Perspective on Metaphoricity in Discourse
- Part IV Salient Metaphor
- Epilogue (A Personal View)
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Moving toward a place and manipulating objects are probably the most important manifestations of goal-oriented actions. Both SELF-PROPELLED MOTION TOWARD A DESTINATION and MAKING AN OBJECT are thus profoundly embodied source domains for the metaphorical conceptualization of PURPOSIVE ACTIVITY. Of these metaphors, only the former – popularly known as LIFE IS A JOURNEY – has received a large amount of attention. Focusing especially on the role of the various FORCE schemas (Johnson 1987), this chapter investigates metaphors from both source domains in three short animation films. Animation provides a perfect medium to express these metaphors in a condensed, aesthetically appealing, and emotion-generating manner. In line with Conceptual Metaphor Theory, it is argued that viewers’ understanding and appreciation of these metaphors critically depends on image schemas. Stressing that the body is the beginning but not the end of meaning-making, the chapter also shows that this understanding cannot be reduced to them and that cultural and contextual factors qualify and fine-tune embodied schemas.
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- MetaphorEmbodied Cognition and Discourse, pp. 239 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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