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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Modularity versus Holism
2.1 The Modular Approach
2.2 The Holistic Approach
3. Lakoff’s Cognitive Theory (1987)
3.1 Basic-Level Concepts and Kinesthetic Image Schemas
3.2 Idealized Cognitive Models (ICMs) and Embodiment
4. The Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) by George Lakoff (1980)
4.1 Metaphorical Concepts
4.2 The Systematic Structure of Metaphorical Concepts
5. Conclusion
Bibliographic References
Language is called the Garment of Thought: however, it should rather be, Language is the Flesh-Garment, the Body, of Thought. I said that Imagination wove this Flesh-Garment; and does not she? Metaphors are her stuff: examine Language; what, if you except some few primitive elements (of natural sound), what is it all but Metaphors, recognized as such, or no longer recognized; still fluid and florid, or now solid-grown and colorless? If those same
primitive elements are the osseous fixtures in the Flesh-Garment, Language,
— then are Metaphors its muscles and tissues and living integuments.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
(“Prospective”, Book I, Chapter 11: 57])
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- Janine Lacombe (Author), 2012, George Lakoff's Cognitive Theory and His Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/267182
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