Cognitive Metaphor Theory and the Metaphysics of Immediacy

Madsen, Mathias Winther

doi:10.1111/cogs.12320

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“…4 the coachee's exact words and non-verbal expressions uncontaminated by the coach's language may minimise this challenge (Madsen, 2016). However, this may also limit the depth of the transformational insight in the coaching process to the coachee's prior experiences.…”

Section: The Role Of Language In Coaching Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The paradox of coaching in a non-native language

Steel,

Karmowska

2024

JMP

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PurposeLanguage plays a complex role in coaching, facilitating communication, comprehension and meaning construction. Yet, the implications of coaching in a non-native language are uncertain and under-researched. This study explores the role of non-native language (NNL) in dyadic workplace coaching practice. Specifically, it explores how working in a NNL influences the coaching experience from the coach’s perspective.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative approach was chosen to explore the way coaches view coaching in a NNL. Twenty-three semi-structured interviews were conducted with coaches experienced in coaching in NNL. Reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) was applied for data analysis.FindingsNNL coaching presents a paradoxical mix of negative and positive tensions for the coach and coachee in communication, relationship and insight. NNL coaching is nuanced and may be accommodated using coaching competencies to mitigate the potential for misunderstanding and relationship rupture. It offers alternative perspectives to existing worldviews, eliciting deeper insights. Coaches’ confidence in coaching in a NNL varies from a challenging struggle that perceptually hinders performance, through ambivalence, to a sense of greater resourcefulness.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the stream of literature on language in international business, sociolinguistic research and how meaning is constructed in a coaching process. First, the work develops a distinction between coaching in a native language (NL) and a NNL. Second, study results indicate that the context of NNL creates challenges as well as opportunities in a dyadic coaching process, particularly regarding aspects of the coach–coachee relationship and insight elicitation via alternative perspectives. Moreover, several practical implications of the study for the coaching practice are discussed.

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Section: The Role Of Language In Coaching Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The paradox of coaching in a non-native language

Steel,

Karmowska

2024

JMP

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“…Since 1980, scholarship on conceptual metaphor theory has developed within the larger disciplines of cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology. Claims of conceptual ambiguities and challenges to the accuracy of empirical evidence means that cognitive metaphor theory has evolved over time, although the central concept remains irrefutable ( 23 ).…”

Section: How Metaphors Shape Human Realitymentioning

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Perspectives on the insidious nature of pain metaphor: we literally need to change our metaphors

Johnson,

Hudson,

Ryan

2023

Front. Pain Res.

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Metaphorical language is used to convey one thing as representative or symbolic of something else. Metaphor is used in figurative language but is much more than a means of delivering “poetic imagination”. A metaphor is a conceptual tool for categorising, organizing, thinking about, and ultimately shaping reality. Thus, metaphor underpins the way humans think. Our viewpoint is that metaphorical thought and communication contribute to “painogenicity”, the tendency of socio-ecological environments (settings) to promote the persistence of pain. In this perspectives article, we explore the insidious nature of metaphor used in pain language and conceptual models of pain. We explain how metaphor shapes mental organisation to govern the way humans perceive, navigate and gain insight into the nature of the world, i.e., creating experience. We explain how people use metaphors to “project” their private sensations, feelings, and thoughts onto objects and events in the external world. This helps people to understand their pain and promotes sharing of pain experience with others, including health care professionals. We explore the insidious nature of “warmongering” and damage-based metaphors in daily parlance and demonstrate how this is detrimental to health and wellbeing. We explore how metaphors shape the development and communication of complex, abstract ideas, theories, and models and how scientific understanding of pain is metaphorical in nature. We argue that overly simplistic neuro-mechanistic metaphors of pain contribute to fallacies and misnomers and an unhealthy focus on biomedical research, in the hope of developing medical interventions that “prevent pain transmission [sic]”. We advocate reconfiguring pain language towards constructive metaphors that foster a salutogenic view of pain, focusing on health and well-being. We advocate reconfiguring metaphors to align with contemporary pain science, to encourage acceptance of non-medicalised strategies to aid health and well-being. We explore the role of enactive metaphors to facilitate reconfiguration. We conclude that being cognisant of the pervasive nature of metaphors will assist progress toward a more coherent conceptual understanding of pain and the use of healthier pain language. We hope our article catalyses debate and reflection.

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“…In 1980 the scientific work of D. Lakoff and M. Johnson "Metaphors We Live By" saw the light of day, in which linguists criticise the classical views on the concept of metaphor and prove that it is the basis of human thinking and everyday communication. In this study, they are presented as concepts through which a person perceives the world around him (Madsen, 2016). The discovery of D. Lakoff and M. Johnson began a new era in the history of the study of this secondary nomination tool.…”

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The cognitive function of a conceptual metaphor and its methodological foundations

Beknazarova

Almautova

Yelemessova

et al. 2021

JLLS

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The theory of metaphor has gone through its development, starting with the works of Aristotle, in which it was begun, to the present state, when the linguistic paradigm became anthropocentric, and all linguistic phenomena are considered in direct connection with a person, his thinking, with society. The metaphor, which manifests the principle of human analogue thinking, occupies one of the central places in the cognitive direction of linguistic research. The cognitive theory explores metaphor as a means of conceptualising reality, as a basic mental operation that combines various conceptual spheres to explain, characterise, and cognise one with the help of the other. The novelty of the research is determined by the fact that in traditional theories (comparison theory, semantic approach) metaphor was perceived only as an unusual use of the word, as an abbreviated comparison, or investigated its semantic side, but did not pay attention to the reasons for the emergence of the metaphor, its essence, nature, its mechanisms generation, its role in the process of thinking and cognition. The authors show that the further development of the theory of metaphor is observed in close connection with the development of cognitive linguistics. The practical significance of the research is determined by the fact that the metaphor is shown not only as a phenomenon of language, but also one of the main means of thinking.

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Cognitive Metaphor Theory and the Metaphysics of Immediacy

Cited by 14 publications

References 63 publications

The paradox of coaching in a non-native language

The paradox of coaching in a non-native language

Perspectives on the insidious nature of pain metaphor: we literally need to change our metaphors

The cognitive function of a conceptual metaphor and its methodological foundations

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