When Metaphors Function as Schemas: Some Cognitive Effects of Conceptual Metaphors

Allbritton, David

doi:10.1207/s15327868ms1001_4

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“…They argue that conceptual thought is almost always grounded in physical metaphor in a manner that is relatively implicit (for related views, see also Allbritton, 1995;Gibbs, 1992Gibbs, , 1994Katz, Blasko, & Kazmerski, 2004;Köveces, 2000). Indeed, they contend that the neurological processes that are responsible for abstract thought are intimately bound with the neurological processes that are responsible for representing perceptual experiences.…”

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The Metaphorical Representation of Affect

Meier¹,

Robinson²

2005

Metaphor and Symbol

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Philosophers and psycholinguists have argued that abstract concepts like affect are represented via the mechanism of metaphor. This review investigates this contention, specifically within the context of social-cognition and clinical psychology research that has studied the link between affect and brightness, vertical position, and distance between the self and an object. The review will be particularly concerned with automatic and incidental linkages between affect and perception and their relevance for a variety of affective phenomena related to evaluation, mood, and emotional behavior. The cumulative data reveal that the metaphorical representation of affect has considerable merit. For this reason, the review suggests an expanded research agenda including (a) other perceptual experiences (such as those related to taste and temperature), (b) potential cultural variations, (c) neuroimaging research, and (d) the elucidation of "real world" consequences.

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Section: Metaphor and Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Metaphorical Representation of Affect

Meier¹,

Robinson²

2005

Metaphor and Symbol

198

107

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“…Third, metaphors often function as organizational frameworks to interpret incoming information and facilitate its recall from memory (Allbritton, 1995;Belt, 2003;Gentner, 1982;Lau & Schlesinger, 2005;Mio & Lovrich, 1998;Mio, Thompson, & Givens, 1993;Read, Cesa, Jones, & Collins, 1990;Robins & Mayer, 2000;Schlesinger & Lau, 2000). As Gentner (1983) notes, metaphors imply a system of relations that helps people understand how different pieces of information fit together.…”

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Toll Booths on the Information Superhighway? Policy Metaphors in the Case of Net Neutrality

Hartman

2012

Political Communication

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“…Conceptual metaphor theory has been applied to discourse studies to assess its cognitive effects on text comprehension, on the one hand, and on content depiction modeling, on the other. As regards the influence of metaphor on information processing and text representation, evidence suggests that texts written around a main conceptual metaphor provide a schema-like structure that helps readers in a decisive manner to filter and organize incoming information as well as to link pieces of information in memory (Allbritton 1995;Allbritton, McKoon and Gerrig 1995;Lau and Schlesinger 2005;Robins and Mayer 2000). Evidence not Cuad.…”

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Using metaphor to explore the organizational patterns of expository writing

Castaño

Verdaguer

Hilferty

2019

Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica

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La escritura es una tarea compleja y multifacética que presenta muchos desafíos, especialmente cuando se escribe en un idioma extranjero. Estudios recientes han demostrado que tanto escritores como lectores se benefician del conocimiento explícito de los géneros textuales y de su organización, ya que el sentido de unidad de un texto está en gran parte relacionado con su estructura general. El conocimiento de la estructura del texto revela las convenciones que controlan el flujo de información y determinan los tipos de señales disponibles para los lectores. En este artículo usamos la teoría de la metáfora conceptual para proporcionar una nueva forma de explorar la escritura en el contexto académico y analizar el marco conceptual que escritores y lectores emplean para organizar la información. En este sentido, ilustramos cómo la metáfora los TEXTOS SON VIAJES puede usarse para dilucidar la organización macroestructural subyacente en textos expositivos escritos por aprendices de inglés.

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When Metaphors Function as Schemas: Some Cognitive Effects of Conceptual Metaphors

Cited by 36 publications

References 57 publications

The Metaphorical Representation of Affect

The Metaphorical Representation of Affect

Toll Booths on the Information Superhighway? Policy Metaphors in the Case of Net Neutrality

Using metaphor to explore the organizational patterns of expository writing

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