Cultural Metaphors

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Cultural Metaphors

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Author : Martin J. Gannon
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2001

Cultural Metaphors written by Martin J. Gannon and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.

This outstanding volume examines the importance and usefulness of metaphors as a way of understanding national cultures. The research translations include not only limited empirical studies in which specific hypothesis are tested, but also larger, more expansive works published as books and groundbreaking articles. The often-overlooked views of political scientists and journalists who conceive of the world in terms of zero-sum game theory are explored, as are the issues of the symbolism associated with cultural metaphors. The book concludes with a description of specific uses of cultural metaphors or metaphorical applications.

Metaphors Shaping Culture And Theory

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Author : Herbert Grabes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

Metaphors Shaping Culture And Theory written by Herbert Grabes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Aufsatzsammlung categories.

Conceptual Metaphors Of Romantic Love In Western Comic And Japanese Manga

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Author : Ellen Thiessen
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-11-17

Conceptual Metaphors Of Romantic Love In Western Comic And Japanese Manga written by Ellen Thiessen and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-17 with Social Science categories.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Communications - Broadcast and entertainment, grade: 1,0, University of Groningen (Faculty of Arts ), course: Language, Communication and Culture, language: English, abstract: According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980), metaphors involve a mapping of a tangible source domain on an intangible target domain and enable therefore the expression of concepts difficult to verbalise as such. ROMANTIC LOVE is one of these concepts. Indeed, "romantic love is commonly thought of as a mysterious emotion which it is notoriously difficult to pin down. [...] Various authors in various disciplines have expressed the view that this is a concept that is difficult to grapple with and define" (Kövecses, 1986). By analysing the conceptual metaphors used to describe ROMANTIC LOVE in conventionalised language, Kövesces succeeded to describe the constituents and structure of this concept. Kövecses research on the concept of ROMANTIC LOVE and the cultural variation of metaphor is based exclusively on verbal evidence. As Charles Forceville (2005:69) acknowledged, "in the interest of enriching insights into ideological conceptual metaphors, non-verbal and multimedial representations need to be investigated as well"; mostly in order to break "the vicious cycle of saying that verbal metaphoric expressions are evidence of conceptual metaphors, and then saying that we know that because we see conceptual metaphors expressed in language" (Cienki, 1998). The present paper aims to extend Kövecses research by analysing the visual expression of ROMANTIC LOVE and its cross-cultural variation in comics. Indeed, as Forceville (2005:71) mentioned, "comics are a good source of pictorial data for such a project: unlike, for instance, realistic photographs and live-action films, which are more or less 'naturally' mirror real-life manifestations of emotions, comics and cartoons make use of stereotypical exaggerations and of a rudimentary 'sign-system' very much like a

Metaphor Cognition And Culture

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Author : Zouhair Maalej
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Metaphor Cognition And Culture written by Zouhair Maalej and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Cognition and culture categories.

Metaphor In Culture

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Author : Zoltán Kövecses
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-07

Metaphor In Culture written by Zoltán Kövecses and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-07 with Psychology categories.

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kövecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation.

Metaphor Culture And Worldview

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Author : Dilin Liu
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2002-10-16

Metaphor Culture And Worldview written by Dilin Liu and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Using dominant metaphors in American English and the Chinese language, Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview explores how metaphor is a product that is simultaneously shaped by and is shaping the culture and the worldview of the people who use it, and how it showcases some unique features of communication of the speakers of the two languages. Using examples mostly from media and other public speeches and writings, author Dilin Liu argues that sports and business constitute the dominant metaphors in American English while family and eating form the prevailing metaphors in Chinese. To assist the reader in understanding the metaphors discussed, the book contains a glossary of dominant American and Chinese metaphorical idioms.

Metaphor In Use

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Author : Fiona MacArthur
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-17

Metaphor In Use written by Fiona MacArthur and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and hearers affect the way metaphors are produced or interpreted? Are the methods employed to explore metaphors in one context applicable in others? The sixteen chapters that make up this volume offer not only detailed studies of the situated use of metaphor in language, gesture, and visuals around the world – providing important insights into the different factors that produce variation – but also careful explication and discussion of the methodological issues that arise when researchers approach metaphor in diverse ‘real world’ contexts. The book constitutes an important contribution to applied metaphor studies, and will prove an invaluable resource for the novice and experienced metaphor researcher alike.

History Culture Metaphor

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Author : Wojciech Wrzosek
language : en
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza W Pozn
Release Date : 1997

History Culture Metaphor written by Wojciech Wrzosek and has been published by Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza W Pozn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.

Metaphor And Culture

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Author : Katharina Eder
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-04-27

Metaphor And Culture written by Katharina Eder and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-27 with Literary Collections categories.

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Vienna (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: The main questions that arise given this way of thinking about the connection between metaphor and culture are on the one hand „To what extent do people share their metaphors?“, which at first seemingly trivial becomes much more significant and interesting if we ourselves „To what extent do people around the world share their understandings of images and aspects of the world they live in?“. These questions are of particular interest to me, and were decisive for me regarding the selection of the topic of this paper. In fact, the field of „Metaphor and Culture“ comprises many subtopics, such as for instance „Universality in Metaphorical Conceptualization“, „Cross-Cultural and Within-Cultural Variation in Metaphor“, „Conceptual Metaphors and Their Linguistic Expression in Different Languages“, „Metaphor and Cultural Models“, or „The Causes of Metaphor Variation“. Since I did not want to be too general in this paper, and also wanted to give insight into some practical aspects of the topic, I decided to concentrate on a two specific „subtopics“, and deal with them in greater detail. In the first part, the paper will shed light on a study by Talebinejad & Dastjerdi ́s (2005), who chose animal metaphors for the comparison in two typologically different languages, namely English and Persian. The second part of this paper will address the “Causes of Variation in Metaphor”, whereas the focus lies exclusively on the field of “Differential Experience”.

Pakistan A Cultural Metaphor

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Author : Ghulam Jilani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Pakistan A Cultural Metaphor written by Ghulam Jilani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Pakistan categories.