Cognitive Metaphors of the Mind in "The Canterbury Tales"

• Authors: Agnieszka Wawrzyniak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents an analysis of a number of cognitive metaphors pertaining to the concept of mind (e.g. sanity and insanity), heart, and fire. The study has been based on the text of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The paper contains a short theoretical introduction and a discussion of different linguistic and psychological approaches to issues related to figurative and literal, conventional language use. The analytical part focuses on the detailed contextual study of the cognitive metaphorical concepts. It is argued that many apparently similar concepts can evoke semantically conflicting metaphors, while concepts that appear to be mutually exclusive can sometimes evoke common associations and thereby similar metaphors.

Keywords

EN

metaphor; metonymy; associations; culture-specific; universal

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-60

Dates

published

2014-03-30

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Wawrzyniak

• Adam Mickiewicz University Kalisz

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rela-2014-0011