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Metaphors We Live Twice: A Communicative Approach Beyond the Conceptual View
No full textThis chapter aims to introduce metaphors from two different perspectives: cognitive-linguistic and communicative. In presenting these views, we refer to Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphors (1980) which influenced the evolving field of metaphor studies and its applications to related disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, politics, education, arts, and media. We argue that the theory of conceptual metaphors conflated the communicative dimension of metaphor with its linguistic and cognitive layers. Other trends in metaphor studies have emerged since and suggested that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic component (e.g. Sperber & Wilson 1986; Cameron & Low 1999; Carston 2010; Steen 2011a).
Our work aims at making metaphors ‘live twice’, by answering two main questions: does the communicative dimension of metaphor have specific features that disallows complete reduction to its linguistic and cognitive dimensions? If indeed that is the case then how could these specific properties of communication change our view regarding the linguistic and cognitive dimensions of metaphor? All papers collected in this volume seek to answers these questions, offering new research perspectives, irreducible to the points of view prevailing in the conceptual theory of metaphor
Francesca Ervas, Uguale ma diverso. Il mito dell'equivalenza nella traduzione, Quodlibet, Roma, 2008, pp. 203.
No full textThe text offers a Critical Review of "Uguale ma diverso. Il mito dell'equivalenza nella traduzione" by Francesca Ervas. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.Il testo propone una Lettura Critica del libro "Uguale ma diverso. Il mito dell'equivalenza nella traduzione" di Francesca Ervas. L'autrice riflette criticamente sul libro considerandone le metodologie, gli argomenti e il nesso con altri libri dello stesso tipo e sullo stesso argomento
Not worth a thousand words: On the meaning of a metaphor
No full textThis chapter presents metaphor, its cognitive power and communicative effects. It discusses three main theoretical frameworks: the interactive theory of metaphor by Max Black (1954), the conceptual metaphor theory by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980) and the relevance approach to metaphor understanding by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson (1986). In particular, the paper considers Donald Davidson’s criticism of conceptual reductionism of the interactive metaphor theory and shows that his criticism can be extended to conceptual theory of metaphor. In the light of Donald Davidson’s philosophy (1978), a metaphor is not a concept, but an image and therefore “not worth a thousands of words”. Interestingly, an alternative route to metaphor understanding has been proposed in the relevance-theoretic framework by Robyn Carston (2002, 2010) that offers a new interpretation of Davidsonian view
Imaginary communities: Multimodal reasoning on vaccination in social networks
No full textSocial networks communities are "imagined communities" characterised by "deferred rationality" and "epistemic bubbles". Two case studies of multimodal metaphors in a Facebook group are analysed to show that the visual nature of communication may enhance and reinforce the epistemic bubbles in these communities
Metaphor use in education. A corpus-based approach to investigating language use in a specific field of study.
No full textThe Pragmatics of metaphor use: From the conceptual view to the Relevance-theoretic perspective
No full textThis chapter aims at presenting two main theoretical frameworks for metaphor use analysis: the conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980) and the relevance approach to metaphor understanding (Sperber and Wilson 1986). The former has considered metaphor not only as a linguistic phenomenon, but also as a cognitive mechanism. On the one hand, corpus linguistics, as well as artificial intelligence, provides an empirical answer to the criticism for conceptual reduction in relation to the conceptual metaphor theory. On the other hand, the relevant-theoretic approach showed that metaphor is not “special,” but rather the result of a pragmatic process of “narrowing” or “broadening” of the literal meaning. Interestingly, an alternative route to metaphor understanding has been proposed in the relevance-theoretic framework (Carston 2002, 2010), referencing images evoked in metaphor use
Metaphor use in financial reviews: a language in crisis; linguistic change and metaphorical patterns in EU financial stability reviews (2004-2010)
No full textThe European Financial Stability Reviews (FSRs henceforth) are biannual (June-December) publications by the European Central Bank supplying a synopsis of the “possible sources of risk and vulnerability to financial stability in the euro area” (http:// www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/fsr/html/index .en.html).
The present paper aims to analyze how the 2004-2010 world financial crisis is reflected in or deviated by language metaphors and metaphorical patterns. Both a quantitative and a qualitative analysis will be carried out, the latter aimed at identifying how metaphorical expressions are lexicalized in these texts (Partington 1998; Deignan 2005).
The present study is part of a work-in-progress research aimed at achieving the identification of a type of text/genre through the analysis of the evolution of language during a period of deep financial and economic changes
Avec ou sans charité ? La rationalité selon Davidson et Grice, Piste, 6/2025
No full textFrancesca Ervas, With or Without Charity? Davidson and Grice on rationalit
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