Contact us
 |
[email protected] |
 |
3275638434 |
 |
 |
| Paper Publishing WeChat |
Useful Links
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Article
Animal Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics
Author(s)
Mehri Rouhi
Mohammad Rasekh Mahand
Full-Text PDF
XML 415 Views
DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2011.04.005
Affiliation(s)
Islamic Azad University, Hamedan Branch, Iran
Bu Ali University, Hamedan, Iran
ABSTRACT
The
phenomenon of AM (animal metaphor) can be discussed based on the class-inclusion
model in cognitive linguistics. In this article, we try to prove that this kind
of metaphor accords more with this model than with correspondence model of Lakoff.
It does not mean that the correspondence model is not valid in this regard, but
we argue that depending on the nature of this kind of metaphor, class-inclusion
model can explain some of its characteristics better than the other models. The
correspondence model assumes that metaphors are essentially analogical in
character. Also, it suggests that mappings are one-to-one and structurally
consistent. Invariance principle of this model states that metaphorical
mappings preserve the cognitive topology (that is, the image schema structure)
of the source domain, in a way consistent with the inherent structure of the
target domain. But, the class-inclusion model does not treat metaphors as
analogies rather the source is treated as prototypical instantiation of a
larger, newly created super-ordinate category, which is seen then as
encompassing both source and target domains. This newly created category uses a
prototypical member as an exemplar. We tried to compare these two models in
explaining AM in Persian.
KEYWORDS
AM (animal metaphor), correspondence model, class-inclusion model
Cite this paper
References