Когнитивная теория метафор

Аннотация

zone in their work "Metaphors We of the conceptual metaphor ARGUMENT IS Live” [4, 64]. WAR, where “ARGUMENT is partially Previous scientists had recognized the structured, understood, performed, and talked cognitive measurement of metaphor about in terms of WAR” [4, 5]. This beforehand knowing that the cognitive theory predictable abstract metaphor is realized in of metaphor is likely to be described as expressions such as he always wins an completely new. argument or she attacked my argument. The cognitive theory can be defined by Orientational metaphors support a spatial three main features: orientation to a concept (up-down, front-back, First of all, metaphor is not only viewed etc.) – e.g., HAPPY IS UP versus SAD IS as a matter of language, but also as a matter of DOWN, realized in she is in high spirits thought as well in the cognitive approach. versus I feel low (this metaphor has a physical Cognitive theorists argue that the metaphor is basis as we are in an erect posture when we a significant device with the help of which we feel happy and in a drooping posture when we conceptualize reality. This can actually feel sad). We are made to look at ontological influence the way we behave and act. metaphors as aspects of our experience in Secondly, if it is compared with the terms of entities and substances. A typical substitution and the comparison theories that example is constituted by personification, view metaphor as extraordinary and artistic, which allows us to comprehend physical the cognitive theory gives emphasis that objects in terms of human characteristics and metaphor is a matter of ordinary, everyday actions. language. Any people can realize a range of Conceptual metaphors arise within the predictable metaphorical ideas in the language limits of the standard system of the values because we use them every day to express our based on traditional concepts and rules for the experience, including abstract concepts, such given society. They represent significant as love and time. interest for studying of culture of certain Thirdly, metaphor is defined as a language community as they often hand over mapping of structure from one conceptual the most significant cultural information. The domain, the source domain, to another most important conceptual metaphors are conceptual domain, the target domain. This born with certain prevailing feeling; they have mapping is not based on likeness between the the through character formed in cumulative two concepts, as believed by the comparison “the culture thesaurus” and designate space of theory of metaphor, but rather on the information interaction of members of the correlation of our experience in these two given community. A metaphor, becoming the domains and our ability to structure one general cultural symbol and fixing important concept in terms of the other [4, 117]. at a certain stage language community, the According to cognitive theorists, phenomenon does not disappear, and language serves as an evidence for the continues to exist, change and grow in a existence of conceptual metaphors since it is context. through everyday linguistic expressions that 107 Хорижий филология №2, 2018 йил