Book Review: Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Frontiers in Psychology

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Xiaoming Dong¹  Manjiang Duan² 

[1] Foreign Languages Department, Harbin Engineering University;School of Marxism, Mudanjiang Normal University

关键词: conceptual metaphor theory;    extended conceptual metaphor theory;    literal vs;    non-literal meaning;    levels of conceptual structure;    context;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01513

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Metaphors We Live By, in which conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) was proposed by Lakoff andJohnson, marked the beginning of systematic studies of metaphor in cognitive linguistics. ZoltánKövecses’ new monograph Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory offers an approach that updatesCMT by elucidating many issues that researchers have raised against the theory.The book consists of eight chapters, with the first being the starting point at which the “standard”version of CMT is introduced, including the views in the pioneering work of Metaphors We Live Byand the works that confirmed, added to, and also modified the original ideas. The subsequent fivechapters characterize the new view as “extended CMT,” each beginning with a thought-provokingalternative question that responds to one issue with the “standard” CMT. Chapter 2, “TheAbstract Understood Figuratively, the Concrete Understood Literally, but the Concrete UnderstoodFiguratively?,” responds to the idea that there is such a thing as literal meaning by focusing on theassumption that there may be no literal language at all. The author holds that both concrete andabstract concepts have embodied content ontology and figurative construal and that we can profilethe ontology part in some cases and the figuratively construed part in others.

【 授权许可】

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