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Taking metaphor studies back to the Stone Age: A reply to Xu, Zhang, and Wu (2016) by Raymond W. Gibbs; Elaine Chen is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Taking metaphor studies back to the Stone Age: A reply to Xu, Zhang, and Wu (2016) about?
One recent trend in metaphor studies is to deny the possibility that most verbal metaphors really convey metaphoric meanings via cross-domain mappings. Instead, only a small number of verbal metaphors, those presumably produced "deliberately" and "consciously," ever alert listeners or readers to draw cross-domain inferences. Xu, Zhang, and Wu (2016. Enlarging the scope of metaphor studies. Intercultural Pragmatics 13. 439-447) describe several ways in which this "deliberate metaphor theory" may extend contemporary metaphor research. Our reply notes that this perspective is completely contradicted by cognitive linguistic and cognitive science empirical findings, and, ironically, ignores both communication and consciousness in its efforts to provide a new, improved theory of metaphor. We argue that the new alternative is a regressive attempt to take metaphor studies back to the stone ages of scholarship in which only certain verbal metaphors really reflect true metaphoric thinking.
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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Raymond W. Gibbs; Elaine Chen
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)