Conceptual Foundations of Progress in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

• Authors: Drogosz Anna

Title variants

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Conceptual Foundations of Progress in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

• Languages of publication: PL RU EN

Abstracts

EN

The objective of this article is an analysis of those conceptual metaphors and analogies used by Darwin in his book On the Origin of Species which introduce the notion of progress to the concept of evolutionary change. The analysis covers the analogy between artificial and natural selection, conceptual metaphors of journey, struggle and tree with the UP – DOWN schema. We demonstrate that some aspects of these metaphors make progress an inherent part of the concept of evolution.

Keywords

EN

progress; conceptual metaphors; Charles Darwin

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Acta Neophilologica
• Year: 2012
• Issue: XIV/2
• Pages: 121-128

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Drogosz Anna

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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ISSN

1509-1619