Metaphors of time and Darwin’s Scenario of Evolution

• Authors: Drogosz Anna

Title variants

PL

Metafory czasu i scenariusz ewolucji Darwina

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents a Cognitive Linguistic analysis of conceptualizations of evolutionary change of living organisms on the basis of the text of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. It has been established that the “scenario of evolution” proposed by Darwin to account for the emergence of new species is founded on conceptual metaphors of time and the Event Structure metaphor. It is demonstrated that the scenario of evolution receives the greatest elaboration as the metaphor EVOLUTION IS A JOURNEY. It can be safely assumed that the grounding of the scenario of evolution in conventional metaphors of time has triggered later application of the theory of evolution in areas of research outside the realm of biology.

Keywords

EN

metaphor; text; analysis; Darwin

PL

metafora; analiza tekstu; Darwin

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Językoznawcze
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 77-87

Contributors

author

Drogosz Anna

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie