“Catch[ing] the nearest way”: Macbeth and cognitive metaphor

Freeman, Donald C.

doi:10.1016/0378-2166(95)00015-k

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“…To the contrary, the passage gives readers an all too coherent and forceful picture of Macbeth's despair, and of the lack of any alternative to his situation at this point in the play. In the terms of Freeman (1995), who points out the centrality of path metaphors in Macbeth, there is at this point "no exit": Macbeth is trapped. How, then, does the passage pull readers or listeners into this trap with Macbeth?…”

Section: Shakespeare's Maximalist Extended Metaphorsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Minimalist metaphors

Sweetser

Sullivan

2012

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We suggest that the impact of metaphoric language does not depend entirely on the conceptual metaphor that is evoked, nor on the form the metaphoric language takes, but also on the steps involved in evoking a given metaphor. This is especially apparent in minimalist poetry. Readers are given hints, cultural conventions, or no guidance at all, on how to fill in missing metaphoric domains and mappings. We place minimalist metaphors at the "effortful" end of the cline proposed by Stockwell (1992), and suggest that the other end can be associated with maximalist metaphors, which corral the reader into a highly specific interpretation. The degree of minimalism or maximalism depends on the specific mappings that are linguistically indicated, the degree of conventionalization of the metaphor, and reliance on cultural background knowledge.

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Section: Shakespeare's Maximalist Extended Metaphorsmentioning

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Minimalist metaphors

Sweetser

Sullivan

2012

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“…However, the CM theory also generates predictions regarding the distribution of metaphorical expressions in natural discourse, as a reflection of the use of root metaphor in the production of discourse (Freeman, 1995;Lakoff & Turner, 1989). In this article, our main goal is to examine the CM view with regard to this aspect of language use, namely, the distribution of metaphorical exDownloaded by [Columbia University] at 13:21 08 December 2014 pressions in natural discourse.…”

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Metaphorical (In)coherence in discourse

Shen¹,

Balaban

1999

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“…But discourse and literary scholars have also employed cognitive linguistic ideas to explore metaphorical themes or schemas in extended discourse such as literature and poetry (Freeman, 1995;Lakoff and Turner, 1989). Psycholinguistic studies have examined the impact of reading different metaphorical expressions that are consistent or inconsistent with single conceptual metaphors to see if switching between metaphorical themes disrupts processing and thus far found mixed results (Langston, 2002;Shen and Balaban, 1999).…”

Section: Metaphor Generalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory

Tendahl

Gibbs

2008

Journal of Pragmatics

181

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Contemporary theories of metaphor differ in many dimensions, including the discipline they originate from (e.g., linguistics, psychology, philosophy), and whether they are developed primarily within a cognitive or pragmatic theoretical framework. This article evaluates two directions of metaphor research within linguistics, cognitive linguistics and relevance theory, which both aim to capture essential aspects of the reason for metaphor, and how people ordinarily use and understand metaphor in daily life. We argue, contrary to most received opinion, that cognitive linguistics and relevance theory provide complementary perspectives on metaphor. Both theories offer important insights into the role of metaphor in cognition and language use, and suggest detailed hypotheses on metaphor understanding that surely are part of a comprehensive theory of metaphor. #

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“Catch[ing] the nearest way”: Macbeth and cognitive metaphor

Cited by 56 publications

References 3 publications

Minimalist metaphors

Minimalist metaphors

Metaphorical (In)coherence in discourse

Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory

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