Analogical and Non-analogical Resemblance in Figurative Language: A Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective

Ibáñez, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_14

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Metaphor as a resemblance phenomenon

Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

2024

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Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) departed from tradition in metaphor studies by treating this phenomenon as an ordinary one used in everyday reasoning. From its inception, this theory made emphasis on the role of experiential correlation in accounting for metaphorical thought to the detriment of its long-standing treatment in terms of similarity. This experientialist thesis was later strengthened by making it part of a broader theoretical framework that treated correlation metaphor as an embodied phenomenon where an essential part of its role in reasoning was due to its ability to give rise to conceptual conflation. Against the background provided by this theoretical context, this article reexamines the role of correlation, conflation, and embodiment in terms of two distinctions: low and high-level similarity, on the one hand, and structural and non-structural similarity, on the other hand. The analytical categories that support these distinctions are used to provide an improved understanding of the nature of metaphorical thought, including correlation metaphor, structural metaphor, several forms of analogy, synesthetic metaphor, and metaphorical amalgams.

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Metaphor as a resemblance phenomenon

Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

2024

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Linguistic and metalinguistic resemblance

Ibáñez

Gómez

2022

Figurative Thought and Language

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Similarity judgments are fundamental to cognition. They are part and parcel of our ability as humans to deal with the world around us. This ability shows in how we structure and use language. In this context, this chapter addresses the role of perceived similarity, or resemblance, in language use. It starts from a basic distinction between linguistic and metalinguistic resemblance. The former addresses similarities between entities and states of affairs, while the latter addresses metarepresentational aspects of language, which can be treated in terms of the notion of echo. It further distinguishes three dimensions of linguistic resemblance: attribute-based resemblance, structural resemblance, and high versus low-level resemblance. It pays special attention to the important theoretical status of high-level resemblance as a constraining factor on experiential correlation, which is also active in synesthesia and situation and event-based metaphors. The paper then discusses the role of resemblance in cross-domain relations in irony, hyperbole, and understatement, and it ends with an analysis of the role of metalinguistic resemblance as a pre-requisite for the inferential activity which arises from ironic, parodic, and metonymy-based implicational echoes.

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How Like-Simile Relates to Metaphor: An Exploration of Analytical Parameters

Ibáñez

2023

lartis

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Traditional accounts of figurative language consider like-simile and metaphor to be largely equivalent. However, more recent research shows that metaphor expresses a closer association between the two terms of comparison than like-simile. This paper proposes a variety of criteria to understand the similarities and differences between these two figures of speech, among them the abstractness of the resemblance relationship, the greater subjectivity of metaphor, and the role of comparison in contrast to other factors. This discussion casts light on the metaphor-simile equivalence versus non-equivalence debate.

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Analogical and Non-analogical Resemblance in Figurative Language: A Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective

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Metaphor as a resemblance phenomenon

Metaphor as a resemblance phenomenon

Linguistic and metalinguistic resemblance

How Like-Simile Relates to Metaphor: An Exploration of Analytical Parameters

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