Essays Tagged: "George Lakoff"
Rhetorical Criticism of Cross
thing else. [p. 104].In 1979, Michael Reddy published an article about the 'conduit metaphor' which George Lakoff (1993: 204-5) praised as seminal for the insight that metaphors are fundamental to hum ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Cognitive Semantics - Extensions of Meaning
"how" of metaphor. He also rejected the idea that metaphors can be translated into literal language.Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Lakoff (1993) have showed that metaphors pervade the whole language. T ... e abstract and intangible areas of experience in terms of the familiar and concrete. To prove this, Lakoff claims that often a range of different linguistic expressions are produced by the same metaph ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies