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EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: From Darwin to Dawkins

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Drogosz A.
Acta Neophilologica
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2013
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issue XV/2
19-29
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of the metaphor EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY in the text of its original appearance (Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species) and its later developments (texts by Richard Dawkins). An analysis of selected examples allows a conclusion that EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY is a theoryconstitutive metaphor for evolutionism. The paper also proposes an extended understanding of the whole concept of theory-constitutive metaphor.
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Verbal and pictorial metaphors in the theory of evolution

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Prace Językoznawcze
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2013
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issue 15/1
21-30
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Celem artykułu jest analiza metafor słownych i obrazowych w teorii ewolucji. Na podstawie zaprezentowanych danych wykazano, iż metafora w nauce może pełnić role˛ w tworzeniu teorii jak również w jej wyjaśnianiu (funkcja pedagogiczna). Metafory obrazowe ilustrujące założenia ewolucjonizmu stanowi˛ cenny przykład pedagogicznego zastosowania metafory, jednocześnie prowadząc do zniekształceń lub uproszczeń w rozumieniu teorii poprzez zastosowanie odmiennego środka przekazu (obraz).
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Conceptualization of the Gene in Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene

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Drogosz A.
Academic Journal of Modern Philology
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2017
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vol. 6
75-84
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This paper investigates the conceptualization of the gene in the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins from the point of view of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Conceptual Blending Theory. It is argued that there are two senses of the gene: gene1 is a physically existing section of the DNA, gene2 is information about protein synthesis. It is the second sense of the concept of the gene that undergoes metaphorization. The analysis reveals that Dawkins’ gene is a conceptual blend which becomes extensively elaborated. Through elaboration the gene becomes personified on the one hand and deified on the other. The study shows the richness of Dawkins’ personification: the gene is conceptualized as building and controlling organisms, cooperating and competing with other genes, even showing personality traits. Deification of the gene is focused on highlighting its stipulated immortality and power to create organisms, humans included. The gene blend is at the same time used as an input space in the integration network producing the meme blend. It is also established that the personification of the gene plays the theory-constitutive role in the sense of Boyd (1993).
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Metafory dyskursu intertekstualności, metaforyka tekstylna

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Jarnicki P.
Kształcenie Językowe
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2015
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vol. 13 (23)
49 - 72
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Metaphor has been traditionally defined as only a rhetorical (or stylistic) device; whereas the presence of rhetorical figures suggests persuasion rather than cognition, and any illustration of problems is there only to help in instruction. The cognitive theory of metaphor (although its subject is no longer the same) makes it possible to show the cognitive value of metaphor, to find metaphors where they may not be immediately noticed and, consequently, to show how by illustrating problems we can only create a new cognitive perspective, a new conceptual pattern. The present article focuses on textile/weaving metaphors used by the theory of intertextuality (in Polish literary studies).
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