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Who Does This Remind You Of?

Category: Cognitive Linguistics

Via A. Ross Otto. And where do they get those actors?...

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Explaining the War of the Metaphors1

Category: Cognitive Linguistics

In his comment to my post on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), reposted here, Dr. Gibbs writes: The topic of why conceptual metaphor theory arouses such vehemence is one that greatly interests me and is again the subject of my in...

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Conceptual Metaphor Comment by Dr. Gibbs

Category: Cognitive Linguistics

In the previous entry, I made some disparaging remarks about conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), and George Lakoff specifically. I also noted that, in my experience,, the psycholinguist Raymond Gibbs, Jr. is the only one in the cognitive linguistics who seriously...

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What's the Conceptual Metaphor for Disingenuous?

Category: Cognitive Linguistics

In case you haven't heard about it, there's a relatively new blog in the cognitive science section of the blog world called Cognitive Approaches to Literature. They don't post very often over there, but if they ever start doing so,...

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Music In the Mind: Is Pitch Represented On a Mental Line?

Category: Cognitive Psychology

A friend of mine and I were having a conversation today, and one of us (I don't remember who) brought up a poster that we'd seen at a conference a few years ago. Later, I wondered what had become of...

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Time-Space Metaphors: A Proposed Experiment

Category: Cognitive Psychology

Earlier today I posted about the spatial and temporal ventriloquism aftereffects. One of the reasons I find those effects fascinating because I think they might hint at a counterargument to recent studies by Daniel Casasanto and Lera Boroditsky that seem...

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Space-Time Metaphors In Nonlinguistic Contexts

Category: Cognitive Psychology

The last post on time-space metaphor research has sparked a really interesting discussion in the comments (go check it out), so I thought I'd talk about some more research to see if we can't get even more people talking. If...

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Implicit Agency in Time-Space Metaphors

Category: Cognitive Psychology

As I've said before, the primary (if not the only) real experimental evidence for conceptual metaphor theory -- the theory that abstract concepts are structured by more concrete (i.e., closer to sensory/perceptual) concepts -- comes from one domain: time. Time,...

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Lakoff the Chomskyan?

Category: Frame Analysis

You know things have taken a turn for the surreal when George Lakoff is described as "an admirer of Noam Chomsky." I may dislike his linguistics and his political theory, but I have to pat him on the back for...

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Raymond Gibbs Jr. Comment on Metaphor

Category: Cognitive Linguistics

Raymond Gibbs Jr., psycholinguist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, one of the principle adherents of cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphor theory, was kind enough to leave a comment at the post "Idioms, Metaphors, and Lakoff, Oh My!." Dr....

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