The roots of metaphor: the essence of thought

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Herbert L. Colston¹ 

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关键词: figurative language;    metaphor;    conceptual domains;    cognitive duality;    source domain;    target domain;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1197346

 received in 2023-03-30, accepted in 2023-05-30,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The essence of metaphor’s reliance on two domains, a source and a target, is argued as stemming from a fundamental characteristic of higher cognition—that of conceptualizing more than one cognitive/embodied domain at the same time. This cognitive duality is argued to underlie a plethora of conceptual activities including comparison, contrast, categorization, as well as metaphorizing. Why “two” domains seems the emergent and optimal means of such meta-cognition, rather than a higher number of domains, which might confer some advantages, is argued to arise from a grand compromise between an extreme necessity of humans to create and rely-upon shared complex meanings, and the complexities in enabling such shared meaning across multiple domains.

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