Wiedzotwórcza funkcja metafor w nauce a koncepcja metafory eksplikatywnej Jerzego Kmity

• Authors: Paweł Zeidler

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THE COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF METAPHORS IN SCIENCE AND JERZY KMITA’S EXPLICATIVE THEORY OF METAPHOR

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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In the paper entitled “Scientific Explanation and Metaphor” Jerzy Kmita divided all metaphors on reporting and explicative ones. He assumed that the explicative metaphors could play a cognitive function in science, and also characterized them according to Max Black’s interactive theory of metaphor. The main purpose of my paper is to analyse Kmita’s explicative conception of metaphor in the view of Lakoff & Johnson’s cognitive theory of metaphor. I attempt to show that metaphors play an important role in a process of making knowledge, especially in a conceptualization of domain being studied. In spite of an interactive account of metaphor I claim that making use of a metaphor is a process, which proceeds only in the one direction. In the last section of the paper I briefly analyse a few examples of metaphors used in natural sciences.

Keywords

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METAPHOR; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS; JERZY KMITA; LAKOFF & JOHNSON’S COGNITIVE THEORY OF METAPHOR

• Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza Epigram
• Journal: Filo-Sofija
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1(12)
• Pages: 129-144

Contributors

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Paweł Zeidler