Academic literature on the topic 'Conventionalized metaphors'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the lists of relevant articles, books, theses, conference reports, and other scholarly sources on the topic 'Conventionalized metaphors.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Journal articles on the topic "Conventionalized metaphors"
1
Al-Ramahi, Ra'ed Awad. "Conventionalized Metaphors in Jordanian Colloquial Arabic: Case Study: Metaphors on Body Parts." International Journal of Linguistics 8, no. 5 (2016): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v8i5.10066.
Full textAbstract:
<p class="1"><span lang="X-NONE">Jordanian colloquial Arabic is rich with conventionalized metaphorical expressions. Indeed, these expressions make a high percentage in the daily speech of Jordanians. Though these expressions are metaphorically structured, their metaphorical sense has been lost for their wide literal use. This study aims at bringing an analysis to metaphors of body parts, which have become routinely used expressions in Jordanian colloquial Arabic. In addition, the study explores the impact of such metaphors on the effectiveness of social communication. The study is based on Lakoff and Johnson's view of metaphor as part of everyday speech. </span><span lang="X-NONE">Lakoff and Johnson reveal that metaphors are part of our everyday speech. In fact, conventionalized metaphors are metaphors that have become part of our conventional</span><span lang="X-NONE">knowledge of Arabic.</span></p>
2
Goschler, Juliana. "Metaphors in educational texts: A case study on history and chemistry teaching material." Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 7, no. 1 (2019): 79–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2019-0006.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract It is by now a long established fact that academic and educational discourse (as any other kind of discourse) is full of metaphorical language. On the one hand, metaphors are part of educational discourse because of embodied metaphorical conceptualizations and therefore highly conventionalized and unconsciously used linguistic patterns (such as orientational metaphors like MORE IS UP or ontological metaphors like personifications), but on the other hand metaphors can also be used as a conscious teaching strategy in order to structure abstract things in terms of more concrete domains that are closer to direct experiences. In my paper, I will show that certain subjects in school are characterized by educational texts using highly conventionalized metaphors that are most likely not even recognized as such, whereas in others metaphorical language is less frequent and much less evenly distributed among the text. Based on the analysis of educational texts from history and chemistry text books for schools, I will show that these different distribution patterns of metaphorical language in texts point to systematic differences styles of thinking and teaching in the humanities and the sciences.
3
Senkbeil, Karsten, and Nicola Hoppe. "‘The sickness stands at your shoulder …’: Embodiment and cognitive metaphor in Hornbacher’sWasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 25, no. 1 (2016): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947015608084.
Full textAbstract:
This paper applies cognitive linguistic approaches, particularly conceptual metaphor theory, to the study of literature, and analyses how Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (1998) by Marya Hornbacher communicates embodied experiences such as sickness, hunger, and (self-)loathing with the help of conceptual metaphors. It explores how the author renegotiates and partly recontextualizes highly conventionalized metaphors around eating disorders, mental illness, and identity to create new meaning, and how this strategy helped explain the mindset of a person with anorexia and bulimia to a broad critical readership in the late 1990s. This paper hence hypothesizes that the book’s emphasis on metaphors as a means to articulate bodily experiences surrounding a mental disorder may hint towards larger trends concerning the representation of the body–mind relationship in literature and culture in the last two decades.
4
Lemghari, El Mustapha. "A metaphor-based account of semantic relations among proverbs." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6, no. 1 (2019): 158–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00034.lem.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract The paper deals with semantic relations in the field of proverbs from the standpoint of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Our main claim is that proverb understanding is conceptually complex, involving many construal operations, namely metaphor. Metaphor is assumed to play a crucial role in framing and relating proverbs to one another via various semantic relationships. Three semantic relations will be highlighted: synonymy, antonymy and polysemy. Synonymous proverbs will be shown to be structured by similar metaphors, whereas antonymous proverbs by contradictory metaphors. As regards polysemous proverbs, our focus will be on a specific polysemy, consisting of contradictory meanings. Overall, we will attempt to build a cognitive model for proverbs semantic relationships, based on three main assumptions: first, proverbs have relatively stable meaning. Second, rather than sharply distinct, conventionalized meaning and contextual meaning of proverbs form a continuum, residing in their common conceptual base. Third, such a common conceptual base is metaphor-dependent.
5
Sokólska, Urszula. "Słownictwo odnoszące się do żywiołu wody w cyklu poetyckim "Pocałunki" Marii Pawlikowskiej-Jasnorzewskiej." Białostockie Archiwum Językowe, no. 6 (2006): 125–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/baj.2006.06.10.
Full textAbstract:
The article attempted to analyze vocabulary connected with a semantic circle of water in the collection of poems “Pocałunki” / “Kisses”/ by Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska. The author paid attention to specific connections between individual words and revealed not only innovative but also conventionalized elements of the artistic text. Besides, lexical elements that indicate values and connote specific emotions and imaginations which by referring to both popular knowledge of the world and certain symbols and cultural experience create peculiar aura in the text and influence the reader to the greatest extent were analyzed. Particular attention was paid to vocabulary realistically connected with the water semantic field, applied by the poet to name aquatic designates; non-conventionalized extended metaphors of periphrases nature; vocabulary realistically referring to the element of water applied by the poet to describe other phenomena.
6
Putz, Orsolya. "Metaphor evolution and survival in Hungarian public discourse on the Trianon peace treaty." Metaphor and the Social World 6, no. 2 (2016): 276–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.6.2.05put.
Full textAbstract:
The peace Treaty of Trianon, which was signed by the representatives of Hungary and the Allies in 1920, caused substantial economic, political and social changes in the life of the Hungarian nation. The paper explores how far these changes have been conceptualized by conceptual metaphors in Hungarian public discourse from 1920 to the present day. Specifically, it looks at whether there is a conventionalized metaphoric conceptual system concerning the treaty, which began (or was current) in 1920 and has been developing for almost a hundred years. The paper applies a qualitative approach to a small corpus of written texts. The corpus contains twenty texts, which are taken from four different categories of public discourse (political, academic, informative and media) and four time periods (1920–1945, 1945–1990, 1990–2010, and 2010–2015). The paper concludes that, within the public discourse on the consequences of the Trianon peace treaty, the same metaphors have fundamentally survived over nine decades. This conceptual history of metaphors suggests heavy conventionalization, which can play a crucial role in the survival of a certain mental image of the nation and in maintaining negative emotions about the treaty. It also suggests that the Trianon frame is still an essential part of Hungarian national identity.
7
Sharma, Sunil. "Metaphor and emotion." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5, no. 2 (2018): 303–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00023.sha.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract The objective of current research article is to examine the metaphorical concepts of emotion anger in conventionalized phraseological expressions or phraseologisms (pls) of Hindi.1 It aims to find out the extent to which conceptual metaphor motivate Hindi pls and influence their semantic configuration. In addition, it also compares the metaphorical concepts of Hindi mainly with that of English and Chinese while employing the research studies conducted by Kövecses (1990), Lakoff and Kövecses (1987) and Yu (2012), who have postulated that physical interaction with surrounding world as well as cultural artefacts and practices largely mediate the conceptualization of emotions in a given linguistic community. Being the language of a collectivist cultural community in India, Hindi chooses more language-specific anger metaphors and conceptualizes anger more cultural specifically than English and other languages do.
8
Yu, Ning. "Body and emotion." Pragmatics and Cognition 10, no. 1-2 (2002): 341–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.10.1-2.14yu.
Full textAbstract:
This study presents a semantic analysis of how emotions and emotional experiences are described in Chinese. It focuses on conventionalized expressions in Chinese, namely compounds and idioms, which contain body-part terms. The body-part terms are divided into two classes: those denoting external body parts and those denoting internal body parts or organs. It is found that, with a few exceptions, the expressions involving external body parts are originally metonymic, describing emotions in terms of their externally observable bodily events and processes. However, once conventionalized, these expressions are also used metaphorically regardless of emotional symptoms or gestures. The expressions involving internal organs evoke imaginary bodily images that are primarily metaphorical. It is found that the metaphors, though imaginary in nature, are not really all arbitrary. They seem to have a bodily or psychological basis, although they are inevitably influenced by cultural models.
9
Wilcox, Miranda. "Creating the cloud-tent-ship conceit in Exodus." Anglo-Saxon England 40 (December 2011): 103–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026367511100007x.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractThe enigmatic description of the columna nubis in lines 71b–92 of the Old English Exodus juxtaposes images of substances that shield God's people from their hostile environment; understanding the relations among these protective coverings requires cultural and literary knowledge not explicitly articulated in Exodus. Metaphors and typologies developed in Arator's sixth-century Historia apostolica and subsequently conventionalized in Bede's eighth-century Expositio actuum Apostolorum, texts used in the Anglo-Saxon monastic curriculum, provide an interpretative framework for the complicated accretion of images in Exodus. Using insights about metaphorical processing from cognitive science, this article argues that the Exodus-poet crafted a sophisticated tripartite conceit to generate a pastoral relationship with his audience, first by adapting metaphoric mappings from Arator and Bede and then by extending their domains with culturally specific entailments about how ships and tents functioned as protective covers in Anglo-Saxon material culture.
10
Lechner, Ilona. "CONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF GERMAN AND HUNGARIAN IDIOMS." Philological Review, no. 1 (May 31, 2021): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.31499/2415-8828.1.2021.232664.
Full textAbstract:
The subject of the study is the examination of figurative meaning in Hungarian and German. In the present study, I present the interpretation of figurative meaning within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics by analysing idiomatic expressions in Hungarian and German on the example of the concept of ‘time’. In this contrastive research, I primarily look for the answer to how ordinary people use cognitive tools to grasp intangible abstract concepts such as ‘time’ and what connections can be observed between literal and figurative meaning.
 The examined Hungarian and German idioms are the linguistic manifestations of the conceptual metaphor time is money (valuable resource). The study aims to support the assumption that in any language an abstract meaning can only be expressed with a figurative meaning.
 Time is an abstract concept that is present in the everyday language use of all people. The expressions time passes, the time is here, my time has come, it takes a lot of time – to mention just a few, have become so conventionalized in our language that we take their meaning literally. Nonetheless, they are based on conventional conceptual metaphors that we use to make the concept of time more tangible to ourselves. The linguistic manifestations of these conceptual metaphors are created and understood without any mental strain.
 In the first stage of the research, I searched for possible German equivalents of Hungarian expressions, and then I used Internet search engines and idiom and monolingual dictionaries to select the most frequently used equivalent in German. As a next step, I examined 1) the word form, 2) the literal meaning, 3) the figurative meaning, and 4) the conceptual metaphor of idioms in both languages, which were either been identical or different. Because they are different languages, the word forms are inherently different. At the end of the study, I compared the formed patterns from which I drew conclusions, which support that figurative meaning is figurative in another language as well.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Conventionalized metaphors"
1
Burman, Anna-Karin. "An Idea Is a Life Form : An attempt to find evidence of the Conceptual MetaphorTheory by studying the Old English poem Beowulf." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-24265.
Full textAbstract:
This small study concerns occurrences of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual metaphor in the Old English poem Beowulf. The first 224 lines of Beowulf were searched for non-literal passages. Thefound passages were sorted into the groups conventionalized metaphor, metonymy and innovativemetaphor. The conceptual metaphors were in turn sorted into target domains and source domains and grouped within the domains. These were then compared to Modern English and Modern Swedish metaphors and conceptual metaphors with the help of dictionaries and corpus studies. Beowulf was also looked at as a small corpus. Words which were suspected to be used inmetaphorical senses were searched for in the full text and the results were examined and comparedwith modern language usage. It was found evident that Old English and Modern English, as well as Modern Swedish, have many conceptual metaphors in common both when in comes to experiential metaphors and culturally grounded metaphors.
Book chapters on the topic "Conventionalized metaphors"
1
"Compactness And Conceptual Complexity Of Conventionalized And Creative Metaphors In Italian." In Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective. BRILL, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9780585492230_022.
Full textConference papers on the topic "Conventionalized metaphors"
1
Do Dinh, Erik-Lân, Hannah Wieland, and Iryna Gurevych. "Weeding out Conventionalized Metaphors: A Corpus of Novel Metaphor Annotations." In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/d18-1171.
Full text