scholarly journals Body, Forces, and Paths

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Golan Gur
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Metaphorical Thinking ◽  
Body Forces ◽  
Theory Of Meaning ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Mark Johnson

Studies by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in the field of cognitive linguistics give rise to a theory of meaning that bestows a central role on metaphorical thinking and the body. This essay explores the ramifications of physical embodiment on Jean-Philippe Rameau’s conceptualization of tonal harmony. My examination will show that Johnson’s theory of the bodily basis of metaphor is not sufficiently adequate to account for all the aspects of Rameau’s harmonic theory, and additional sources for metaphorical projection should be taken into account for its full rendering.

The Physics and Metaphysics of Metaphor

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Gillian Knoll
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Measure For Measure ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Mark Johnson ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Metaphorical Structures

This section argues that Lyly’s and Shakespeare’s characters process and experience eros through the primary metaphor of motion. These introductory pages explore the philosophical and conceptual underpinnings of this metaphor through the example of Shakespeare’s Angelo in Measure for Measure. Drawing from the work of cognitive linguistics George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Zoltan Kövecses, this section explores the broad metaphorical structures that shape Angelo’s erotic experience as both a passion and an action. Things happen within Angelo well before he ‘acts out’ his sexual pursuit of the novitiate Isabella. The remainder of this section investigates the relationship between erotic potentiality and actuality, or entelechy, in Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics. In Aristotle’s writings, as in Shakespeare’s play, the boundary between potency and actuality is fluid rather than fixed. As a result, Angelo’s metaphors dramatize the capacity of erotic potentiality to create drama. For him, as for so many of Lyly’s and Shakespeare’s characters, desire is itself a frenzied action.

The Body as Metaphor

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Gregory E. Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Mark Johnson

AbstractThis essay considers Philo of Alexandria’s metaphor in which he used the dual nature of embodied existence (body and soul) to argue that both literal and allegorical readings are legitimate. It examines the metaphor in the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CTM) developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson that argues that experience is the key to meaning. A metaphor occurs when we apply a pattern that we have observed in one setting (gestalt) to another. In this case, Philo has drawn on a Platonic/Stoic understanding of being human and applied it to contested hermeneutics within the Alexandrian Jewish community in an effort to maintain a sense of unity among two groups. The metaphorical experience is the recognition that Scripture is polyvalent in the same way that being human is.

scholarly journals Metaphor and Methodology for Cross-Cultural Investigation of Hebrew Emotions

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Phil King
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Mark Johnson ◽  
John Taylor

Feeling down or in a tight spot? How do we know what someone means when they tell us how they feel? How could we go further and explain how emotions are understood across cultures? This article looks at three approaches—the use of physiology, of key words, and of metaphors. This is followed by a demonstration of the insights from the metaphorical approach as applied to Anglo emotions. Applying this metaphorical approach to biblical Hebrew (where there is no access to native speakers) is much more difficult than to a living language. However, application of the Cognitive Linguistics of George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Raymond Gibbs, John Taylor and others allows the construction of a methodology to give evidence for what emotions the Hebrew authors felt. This methodology is applied to Hebrew descriptions of distress to show how such emotions are conceptualised. The article also explains how this methodology can be applied more widely, to evaluate others’ claims about how the ancient Israelites thought and felt. Finally, some implications are given in the areas of Hebrew exegesis, cultural anthropology, and for the translation of “emotional” texts.

scholarly journals Urenhedsforestillinger i den monastiske kultur

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluf Schönbeck
Keyword(s):  
Human Skin ◽  
The Body ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Bodily Injury ◽  
Interior Boundary ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Mark Johnson ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Natural Orifices

A number of statements by the eleventh centurt ascetic Peter Damian concerning purity, impurity and purification are interpreted by means of the so-called Container Schema formulated by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. According to Lakoff and Johnson humans experience teir bodies as containers and as things in containers. Containers are characterized by the following structural elements: interior, boundary, exterior. Peter Damian is shown to describe impurity as a state of defilement, disease of bodily injury - all phenomena that are caused by a threatened or an actual breakdown of the boundary of the container, i.e. the human skin, the main purpose of which is to separate the interior  from the m enacing exterior. Basically then, impurity is seen as a result of an invasion of the body by foreign substances through the natural orifices, e.g. the senses, or through lesions - substances that may in their turn bring about unwanted discharges in the shape of e.g. semen or - in a metaphorical sense - sinful behaviour. Acts of purification are described by Damian in terms of the same container metaphor. Finally, it is suggested that the container metaphor may serve as a tool in analysing ideas of impurity outside a Christian, monastic context.

scholarly journals På sporet af en mytes oprindelse

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Maria Leopold
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Early Language ◽  
Surrounding World ◽  
Mental Faculty ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Max Müller ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Mark Johnson ◽  
Definition Of Religion ◽  
Definition Of

This article is a rereading of Friedrich Max Müller’s theory of the origin and growth of religion and mythology in the light of modern cognitive theories. The intention of this research is to draw attention to Max Müller’s linguistic and cognitive hypothesis of mythology and religion and compare it to modern cognitive theories presented by Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. In the theory of Max Müller, notions such as ‘myth being a disease of language’ and ‘man’s propensity to religion’ originate from a certain ‘mental faculty’,  which reveals an ontologically distinct definition of religion. According to Max Müller, myth is the result of the defective attempt of early language to classify the surrounding world of man. These theories, which have been considered idiosyncratic and useless, appear more plausible in the light of current cognitive linguistics, and Max Müller’s intuitions are viewed in the light of these recent theories.

PRAGMATIC MEANING AND COGNITION.Sabine S. A. Marmaridou. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. Pp. xii + 322. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-568
Author(s):  
Bruce Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Symbolic Representation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Mark Johnson

Pragmatic meaning and cognition provides an analysis of pragmatic meaning that is grounded in general cognitive linguistics. It makes use of the specific framework of “experiential realism” as put forth in the works of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, which views language as a representation of reality as it is perceived and experienced by human beings. As such, experiential realism stands in contradistinction to an objectivist framework in which language is a symbolic representation of objectively existing reality. Marmaridou's overarching goal is to demonstrate how sociocultural aspects of pragmatic meaning are integrated into cognitive structure rather than being external to it.

scholarly journals Dialogue on Film and Philosophy

M/C Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Wilhelmsson
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Socratic Dialogue ◽  
Text Format ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
John Lennon ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Mark Johnson

Editors' Preface When Ulf Wilhelmsson first contacted us about including his "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy" in the M/C 'chat' issue, we were initially taken aback. True, the notion of chat surely must include that of 'dialogue', but Wilhelmsson's idea, as he put it to us, was that of a Socratic dialogue about film. The dialogue "Film och Filosofi" already existed in Swedish, but he had done an initial rough translation of the dialogue on his Website. Since Wilhelmsson put this to us in the very early days of the submission period, we decided to have a look. Wilhelmsson had omitted to mention the fact that his dialogue was amusing as well as informative. Playing Socrates was ... Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino was not just discussing film, but he was moderating a hefty grab-bag of influential philosphers, film-makers, film-scholars and the odd Beatle (John Lennon). Furthermore, creeping in to many of the utterances in the discussion was Wilhelmsson's take on Tarantino's vernacular -- keep an eye out for "Bada boom bada boom, get it?" and "Oh Sartre. Dude, I would also like to provide a similar example". The philosphers sometimes also get a chance to break out of their linguistic bonds, such as Herakleit, who tells us that "War is the primogenitor of the whole shebang". Occasionally, Wilhelmsson lets his conversants get rowdy (St Thomas of Aquinas and Aristotle yell "Tabula Rasa!" in unison), put on accents (Michel Chion with French accent: "Merci merci. Je vous en pris that you are recognising tse sound"), be "dead sure of themselves" (George Lakoff and Mark Johnson; Noam Chomsky thanks us for our attention) and wander in and out of the dialogue's virtual space (at the end, Immanuel Kant returns to us after his daily walk around town). Unfortunately, due to its length, the dialogue can not be supplied in regular M/C 'bits', and so we have made it available as a downloadable Rich Text Format file. Felicity Meakins & E. Sean Rintel -- M/C 'chat' co-editors Download "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy" in Rich Text Format: Citation reference for this article MLA style: Ulf Wilhelmsson. "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3.4 (2000). [your date of access] <http://www.api-network.com/mc/0008/dialogue.php>. Chicago style: Ulf Wilhelmsson, "Dialogue on Film and Philosophy," M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3, no. 4 (2000), <http://www.api-network.com/mc/0008/dialogue.php> ([your date of access]). APA style: Ulf Wilhelmsson. (2000) Dialogue on Film and Philosophy. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3(4). <http://www.api-network.com/mc/0008/dialogue.php> ([your date of access]).

scholarly journals Konseptualisasi Citra Hara ‘Perut’ dalam Idiom Bahasa Jepang

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Akhmad Saifudin
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Cognitive Experience

 Hara simply means belly, but for Japanese people it means more than physical. Hara is a concept, an important concept related to Japanese human life. This paper discusses the conceptualization of hara image for Japanese people. The study utilizes 25 idioms that contain hara ‘belly’ word that are obtained from several dictionaries of Japanese idioms. This paper is firmly grounded in cognitive linguistics, which relates linguistic expressions to human cognitive experience. The tool for analysis employed in this paper is the “conceptual metaphor theory” pioneered by Lakoff and Johnson. This theory considers human perception, parts of the body, and people’s worldview as the basis for the structure of human language. The analysis of this paper results that metaphorically, hara ‘belly’ is an entity and a container, which contains important elements for humans, such as life, mind, feeling, mentality, and physical. The concept of hara 'belly' for Japanese people is to have a spiritual, psychological, social and cultural, biological, and physical image. Keywords: conceptualization, conceptual metaphor, hara ‘belly’,  idioms, imagee.

scholarly journals Going places with bodies that can seek and find, eyes that can see, and ears that can hear: Some remarks on the body and understanding in the Gospel of Thomas

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Liebenberg
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gospel Of Thomas

This article discusses the role which “the body” plays in the Gospel of Thomas. Despite the fact that Thomas has often been regarded as “Gnostic, it is interesting to note that significant sayings within the Gospel (referring to “revelation”) involve the body, while there are also a number of sayings which are distinctly anti-material – most notably GTh 17. The article uses the insights of second generation Cognitive Linguistics and the role of primary metaphors to explain this anomaly.

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