Conceptual metaphor

For my base, I will use the concept of pattern recognition from the book “Riveted”. Pattern recognition refers to a cognitive process that connects information from a stimulus with information recovered from memory. Commonly, the recognized patterns can be those apparent in facial features, units of music, and components of language or characters. Pattern recognition does not occur immediately, although it does happen mechanically and instinctively. Pattern recognition is an inherent and inborn ability of animals. For my target example, I will explain how we understand the notion of conceptual metaphor theory from the analogy lecture. Conceptual metaphors refer to the apprehension of one idea, or theoretical realm, in terms of another. It…

In his book ‘do not think of an elephant’, he author is keen in outlining the different American values which most individuals are unable to progressively articulate. Osborn also manages to show how different groups of people frame their issues(Osborn 307). Being a popular policy maker and a good literate critic, Osborn, has been able to present and support favorable policies especially those which are in alignment with values and personal identities, and especially issues that counter other…

The classification of metaphors is actually a relatively complex problem. Many scholars have categorized metaphors for their own studies. In this part, only Lakoff and Johnson’s classification is given a brief account. Based on the cognitive functions they act, Lakoff and Johnson (1980) put forward three kinds of conceptual metaphors: structural metaphor, orientational metaphor, and ontological metaphor. All of them will be discussed and give examples in this section. Firstly, structural…

When explaining new material to students, educators frequently employ metaphor during their lectures to make new, difficult material simpler and more accessible to the student than it otherwise would be. This teaching technique is logical: metaphors provide the link between immaterial, complex target domains of knowledge and readily understandable source domains that the students have been exposed to in their everyday lives, in order to make the new information comprehensible to the learner. In…

In science, analogy is often employed to help audiences understand the mechanisms in which a theory works. For example, Physics students are often taught to visualize current like water, and the flow of current like the flow of water. In "Metaphors We Live By,” we see that the authors also employ analogy to try to engage the reader into thinking using the same technique of visualization to denote how metaphor is utilized. This is best exemplified by the line, “Imagine a culture where argument is…

reader opens opportunities for new ideas and understandings. When analyzing The Cave by Plato, Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, and On Communication by David Bohm through the lens of the poem Theme for English B by Langston Hughes, readers’ eyes are opened to new perspectives. The poem Theme for English B helps the reader of The Cave to see how identity can be misconstrued…

The next rhetorical device used is metaphors, through metaphors in All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren is able to explain his idea that present actions will directly affect the future for good or bad. The first metaphor is, “And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good...”(Warren 333). In this quote, Jack is justifying…

metphors used in relation to illness are the “ill prejudiced by the lurid metphors with which it has been landscaped”. Sontag’s attitude towards metaphors comes from her strong understanding of how they are just a made up illusion to capture an audience. Metaphors are just a made up illusion to capture an audience because they elude the seriousness of a true illness and dishonor it does to an illness. Sontag has a strong animosity toward the use of metaphors. She believes they elude the…

As funny as it may sound in many works of art there is much more going on than meets the eye. Metaphor, for example, is a common method used by artists to add meaning or dimension to their work. Metaphor is the use of something physically in the painting to represent something entirely separate weather it is an idea, feeling, thought ect. Painting No. 2 This painting depicts three objects resting upon a table or stone slab in front of a black background. The objects include a single tulip in a…

Upon inquiring on the use of metaphors, it is possible that one would instinctively think of metaphor use in literature. However, the use of metaphors is vital to the creation of scientific terminology as exemplified by various scientists that have used metaphors in the explanation of scientific concepts: Copernicus in the Theory of Heliocentricity, Newton in Newtonian physics, or Carl Linnaeus in Systema Naturae. In particular, metaphor has been a tool of speech utilized by Linnaeus in order to…