Pies wierny, ale uciążliwy, czyli rzecz o metaforze (Leśmiana i nie tylko)

• Authors: Muskat-Tabakowska Elżbieta

Title variants

EN

A dog loyal but tiresome: on metaphor in Leśmian's poetry and beyond

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper is a polemical commentary on Wacław Cockiewicz’s monograph Metaforyka Leśmiana (Analiza lingwistyczna). [Metaphors in Leśmian’s poetry (A linguistic analysis)]. It is claimed that although the author of the book rejects as inadequate the cognitive theory of metaphor developed by George Lakoff and his followers, some of his tacit assumptions actually follow its premises. On the other hand, lack of coherent methodology and erroneous treatment of metaphor as the relation of equivalence (A equals B) result in incoherent or downright incorrect interpretation of many metaphors selected for analysis. Individual items from the corpus are presented in alphabetical order, without concern for either the level of their specificity or their semantic cognation. In effect, their systematicity is often missed. Moreover, in some cases Cockiewicz finds himself unable to interpret Leśmian’s metaphors, and thus his Rnal conclusions – though intuitively correct and partially corroborated by some of the analyses – are undermined.

Keywords

EN

cognitive domain; explication; cognitive linguistics; metaphor; visual metaphor; conceptual metaphor; base; extension; projection; tertium comparationis

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: LingVaria : Półrocznik Wydziału Polonistyki UJ poświęcony zagadnieniom języka i językoznawstwa
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 283-291

Contributors

author

Muskat-Tabakowska Elżbieta

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków

References

• Cockiewicz W., 2011, Metaforyka Leśmiana (Analiza lingwistyczna), „Biblioteka »LingVariów«” t. 13, Kraków.
• Evans V., 2009, Leksykon językoznawstwa kognitywnego, Kraków.
• Lakoff G., Johnson M., 1980/1988, Metafory w naszym życiu, Warszawa.
• Lakoff G., Turner M., 1989, More than Cool Reason. Chicago.
• Lakoff G., 1991. The invariance hypothesis: is abstract reason based on image-schemas?, „Cognitive Linguistics” 1, 1, s. 39–74.

Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/LV.09.2014.18.18