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Metaphorical coherence, verbal action, and mental action in French

Publication Type  Journal Article
Year of Publication  1991
Authors  Diller, Anne-Marie
Journal Title  Communications
Volume  53
Pagination  209-228
Key Words  metaphor; cohesion; cognitive semantics; conceptual metaphor theory; linguistic activity; verbal action; conduit metaphor; container/contents relationship; metaphorical coherence; French
Abstract  In a rehabilitation of the metaphor by cognitive semantics, the Conduit metaphor is shown to structure the description of verbal and mental actions - target fields - along with metaphors using the source fields of food and vision. Following a cognitive schema of food, metaphorical correspondence is illustrated. The Conduit metaphor mostly relates words to ideas - the word contains the idea. This container/contents relationship is also what relates the properties of food or vision to the target field, manipulating it in a dynamic way. Just as we eat - not only to feed ourselves but for the pleasure of tasting - we speak to savor the words before getting to the ideas.(M. Perdoux in LLBA, Accession Number 9106160)
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