2006
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-44502006000300003
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Cognitive linguistics and metaphor research: past successes, skeptical questions, future challenges

Abstract: An important reason for the tremendous interest in metaphor over the past 20 years stems from cognitive linguistic research. Cognitive linguists embrace the idea that metaphor is not merely a part of language, but reflects a fundamental part of the way people think, reason, and imagine. A large number of empirical studies in cognitive linguistics have, in different ways, supported this claim. My aim in this paper is to describe the empirical foundations for cognitive linguistic work on metaphor, acknowledge va… Show more

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“…As Gibbs (2006) claims, until today, "there is still insufficient attention paid to the exact ways that cultural beliefs shape both people's understandings of their embodied experiences and the conceptual metaphors which arise from these experiences." The study presented here aims to make a contribution to these shortcomings by illustrating how the revealing of different preferential metaphorical conceptualizations might be embedded in different cultural backgrounds.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As Gibbs (2006) claims, until today, "there is still insufficient attention paid to the exact ways that cultural beliefs shape both people's understandings of their embodied experiences and the conceptual metaphors which arise from these experiences." The study presented here aims to make a contribution to these shortcomings by illustrating how the revealing of different preferential metaphorical conceptualizations might be embedded in different cultural backgrounds.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this sense, our interest did not rely in discovering innovative metaphors reflecting the subjective and individual construction procedures of the groups as, for example, modeled by Fauconnier and Turner (2003;2006), but in culture-specific conventional procedures of metaphorical construction mechanisms. From the vantage point of reconstruction methodology, metaphorical conceptions are not traceable back to a subjective intended meaning, instead being viewed as a derivation of the objective meaning emerging in social interaction.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Thus, as a consequence of the debates on the empirical foundations of Lakoff and Johnson's theoretical framework (cf. Murphy vs. Gibbs in Cognition, 1996 and the considerable success of rival theoretical frameworks (Glucksberg, 2001;Gentner, 1997;Bowdle and Gentner, 2005) a new direction has evolved: psycholinguistic research of conceptual metaphors (Gibbs, 2006(Gibbs, , 2008.…”
Section: Third Example: the Demand For The Combination Of Data And Mementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Aplicações empíricas têm sido pensadas e incorporadas ao referencial teórico a fim de avançar em um campo em que, até há muito pouco tempo, se confiava na própria introspecção, como linguistas e falantes da língua, para validar as hipóteses levantadas. Pesquisadores como Gibbs (2006; há alguns anos vêm advogando por uma abordagem mais empírica nos estudos relacionados a áreas da linguística cognitiva e das neurociências no intuito de buscar evidências para fenômenos como os da emergência de metáforas conceptuais e sua relação com, por exemplo, aspectos como aquisição, déficits, compreensão e produção de linguagem.…”
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