In:Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 4] 2022
► pp. 139–162
Chapter 7Metaphor
A figure of iconic and analogical reasoning
Published online: 16 March 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.4.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/clip.4.c7
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Some contemporary approaches to metaphor
- 3.Metaphor in cognitive linguistics
- 3.1Precursors of conceptual metaphor theory
- 3.2Lakoff and Johnson’s metaphor theory
- 4.The role of inferencing in Lakoff and Johnson’s conception of metaphor
- 4.1Metaphorical entailments
- 4.2The Invariance Principle
- 4.3Inferential structure of source and target domain
- 5.Metaphor and thought
- 6.Conclusion
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