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Space-to-time mappings and temporal concepts
Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...
Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese
07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterOn the conceptual, cultural and discursive motivation of Greek pain lexicalizations
This paper provides evidence for the interaction of conceptual structure, cultural models and discursive practices in motivating pain lexicalizations and related constructions in Greek...
Keywords: pain lexicalizations, pain constructions, image-schemas, metaphor, cultural models, discourse genres, motivation, Greek
10/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterMythic algebra uses: Metaphor, logic, and the semiotic sign
Mythic algebra was developed in a trio of papers in the
Keywords: algebra, irony, logic, metaphor, myth, sign
02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterMeaning, metaphor, and interpretation: Modeling new worlds
Metaphor is founded in the logic of otherness and excess and involves a movement of displacement that leads sense outside the sphere of the same, the commonplace, plain meaning...
Keywords: metaphor, critical reasoning, modeling, linguistic creativity, iconicity, semioethics
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterMetaphor, concept formation, and esthetic semeiosis in a Peircean perspective
We investigate how C. S. Peirce's theory of metaphor can provide us with an insight into concept formation...
Keywords: metaphor, C. S. Peirce, esthetics, concept formation
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterMetaphor and poetic logic in Vico
This paper is part of ongoing research on metaphor conducted from a semiotic perspective, implementing, in particular, theoretical instruments as developed by Charles S...
Keywords: metaphor, syntactics, poetic logic, similarity, body, inventiveness
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterYuri Lotman on metaphors and culture as self-referential semiospheres
Yuri Lotman describes metaphors and culture as semiospheres or ‘semiotic spaces.’ This account of metaphors is self-referential insofar as it is itself expressed in the form of a metaphor...
Keywords: semiosphere, metaphor, self-reference, culture, mental space
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterConceptual manipulation by metaphors and frames: Dealing with rape victims in legal discourse
With an emphasis on the linguistic experiences of rape victims in the legal system, this paper is a consideration of recent innovations in semantic analysis that offer important methodological tools for the analysis of legal encounters...
Keywords: metaphor, frames, smuggling information, power, gender, rape, trial
05/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterA metaphor in search of a source domain: The categories of Slavic aspect
I propose that human experience of matter provides the source domain for the metaphor that motivates the grammatical category of aspect in Russian...
Keywords: aspect, metaphor, embodiment, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, Russian, Slavic languages
09/2004 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter