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By Ning Yu

The first target of this quantity is to give a contribution to the modern thought of metaphor from the perspective of chinese language, for you to aid position the speculation right into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural standpoint. It explores significant questions confronted via the modern thought: if summary reasoning is at the very least partly metaphorical in nature; and what conceptual metaphors are common, frequent or culture-specific. The booklet specializes in metaphors of emotion, the "time as house" metaphor and the development constitution Metaphor. It reviews how chinese language is the same to and diverse from English in regards to those metaphor platforms and picture schema concerned, and what purposes (cognitive or cultural) can account for the similarities and modifications among those languages. The empirial experiences awarded during this monograph search to enhance the view that metaphor is the most mechanism wherein summary techniques are comprehended and summary reasoning is played. It argues that sure conceptual metaphors are grounded in a few uncomplicated human reports that could be common to all people.

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To them, what is called conventional metaphors should not be taken as metaphorical. Rather, 世也le' 町 :y believed 伽 tha' 刽t 协 p hoωrs 旭 i sw 附 o毗巾1 pres 阳町v 悦in鸣 g" (p. 326). Thus , 也ey drew a distinction between "LT-metaphors" (i. e. what Lakoff and Turn衍 count as metaphors) and "1metaphors" (i. e. "the more standardly acknowledged as metaphorical" based on the criterion of "literal incongruity") (p. 326),缸'guing that only I-metaphors are rea1 metaphors. For instance, DEATH IS DEPARTIJRE is an LT-metaphor, but its status 幽 an I-nietaphor is relativized across cultur四.

E. LT-metaphors) are LOCA TIONS, PURPOSES ARE DESTINAτ10NS, TIME MOVES 38 THE CONTEMPORARY THEORY OF METAPHOR not based on "mapping of incongruous domains" but on "thematic parallelism" (pp. 329-330), so they are not I-metaphors. In short, they could not agree with the "excessi vely broad notion of metaphor" of Lakoff and Tumer (1 989) , who , "having drained ÍÌom the term ‘ metaphor' much of its traditional content," "have created a theoretical construct so broad and unstructured that the term ‘ metaphor' may no longer be appropriate" (p.

According to Lakoff and Tumer (1989) , novel metaphors , often f , 32 THE CONTEMPORARY THEORY OF METAPHOR instantiation of the fonner at a more specific level. The fonner only entails the understanding of events in tenns of actions perfonned by agents, but leaves unspecified its details, which are to be fumished by specific-level metaphors. Lakoffand Tumer (1989) have found , for instance, that the so-called personification in literature is summarized by the generic-level metaphor EVENTS ARE ACTIONS.

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