Metaphor and the Reshaping of Our Cognitive Fabric
Mary Gerhart and Allan Russell view our world of meanings as a fabric of concepts and relations. Metaphor bends this fabric, superimposing one concept on another. While Gerhart and Russell are right to view metaphor as a cognitive rather than a purely linguistic phenomenon, their model misses the da...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2004
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Zygon
Year: 2004, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-48 |
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Theology
B Cognitive Science B Ontology B Language B Epistemology B Science B Religion B Linguistics B Cognition B nonliteral language B Metaphor |
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| Summary: | Mary Gerhart and Allan Russell view our world of meanings as a fabric of concepts and relations. Metaphor bends this fabric, superimposing one concept on another. While Gerhart and Russell are right to view metaphor as a cognitive rather than a purely linguistic phenomenon, their model misses the danger inherent in a cognitive restructuring that leaves some features of a concept highlighted and others backgrounded. When the bending of the conceptual fabric becomes permanent, the essential metaphorical insight is lost, leaving a skewed understanding of reality. We have a tendency to retain the metaphorically altered cognitive topography while forgetting its nonliteral genesis. Thus, the metaphoric process is one from which proceeds not only insight but also, necessarily, misconception. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00557.x |