Original scientific paper

METAPHORICAL USE OF LANGUAGE AND PLANT METAPHORS WITHIN THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF COGNITIVE SEMANTICS

Ivana Grbavac ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present concisely a new approach to the plant
metaphor analysis relying on the basic postulates of Cognitive Linguistics.
We use comparative method and present metaphorical projections of
a limited number of plant names. Additionally, we try to construct core
models of the basic conceptual metaphors for plant names. In the last
three decades within the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics a
highly important ‘’innovation’’ has occurred in comparison with traditional
linguistics. Namely, metaphor is primarily viewed not as a figure of
speech, but as a cognitive process by means of which we conceptualize and
categorize the world around us. Although research on metaphor has been
very intensive in Cognitive Linguistics, few papers analyzing mataphors
and plant names have been published.

Keywords

mataphor; Cognitive Linguistics; conceptual metaphors; plant names.

Hrčak ID:

229944

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/229944

Publication date:

14.12.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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