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While various conceptual tools of cognitive linguistics do enable meaning-making processes and do... more While various conceptual tools of cognitive linguistics do enable meaning-making processes and do promote certain structured ways of comprehension, arguably, they imply or highlight the inaccessibility-even deconstruction-of meaning simultaneously. The sheer fact that that human expression requires and utilizes such cognitive devices as categorization, metonymy, metaphor, image-schematic linguistic manifestations based on embodiment, figure-ground alignment, or blends that make everyday, official, political, historical, literary,
The general perception permeating the cognition of "Average Joe" and "Plain Jane" in America expl... more The general perception permeating the cognition of "Average Joe" and "Plain Jane" in America exploits the fact that figurative thinking and knowledge influence meaning-making processes to a larger extent than they are presumably conscious of. Several metaphors were and are developed and forcefully manifested in order to stress the superior status of America, or more precisely, of the American identity. Many of these metaphorical linguistic
In the past 15-20 years, there has been an increasing tendency to study metaphors as they can be ... more In the past 15-20 years, there has been an increasing tendency to study metaphors as they can be found in real data (large corpora, specific discourses, conversations, etc.). What became known as the " corpus-linguistic method " of metaphor study distinguishes itself from a prior way of studying metaphor that is often labeled " intuitive, " " subjective, " and " eclectic. " In the paper, we propose an updated version of the intuitive, etc. method, which we call the " lexical approach. " We compare the lexical approach with the corpus-based approach in some detail, making use of the concept of SURPRISE (see Kövecses, 2015) for demonstrative purposes. While proponents of the corpus-based approach claim that the corpus-based approach is superior to the lexical one, we show that, at least on the evidence of studying surprise, both approaches have their strengths and weakness, and they complement each other.
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Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2019
While various conceptual tools of cognitive linguistics do enable meaning-making processes and do... more While various conceptual tools of cognitive linguistics do enable meaning-making processes and do promote certain structured ways of comprehension, arguably, they imply or highlight the inaccessibility-even deconstruction-of meaning simultaneously. The sheer fact that that human expression requires and utilizes such cognitive devices as categorization, metonymy, metaphor, image-schematic linguistic manifestations based on embodiment, figure-ground alignment, or blends that make everyday, official, political, historical, literary,
The general perception permeating the cognition of "Average Joe" and "Plain Jane" in America expl... more The general perception permeating the cognition of "Average Joe" and "Plain Jane" in America exploits the fact that figurative thinking and knowledge influence meaning-making processes to a larger extent than they are presumably conscious of. Several metaphors were and are developed and forcefully manifested in order to stress the superior status of America, or more precisely, of the American identity. Many of these metaphorical linguistic
In the past 15-20 years, there has been an increasing tendency to study metaphors as they can be ... more In the past 15-20 years, there has been an increasing tendency to study metaphors as they can be found in real data (large corpora, specific discourses, conversations, etc.). What became known as the " corpus-linguistic method " of metaphor study distinguishes itself from a prior way of studying metaphor that is often labeled " intuitive, " " subjective, " and " eclectic. " In the paper, we propose an updated version of the intuitive, etc. method, which we call the " lexical approach. " We compare the lexical approach with the corpus-based approach in some detail, making use of the concept of SURPRISE (see Kövecses, 2015) for demonstrative purposes. While proponents of the corpus-based approach claim that the corpus-based approach is superior to the lexical one, we show that, at least on the evidence of studying surprise, both approaches have their strengths and weakness, and they complement each other.
Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2019