The Role of Conceptual Metaphors in our Thinking
Ildikó-Csilla Takács
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The Role of Conceptual Metaphors in our Thinking

A Cognitive Perspective

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This book proposes a view of the integration of conceptual metaphors in our thinking, the brainchild of Lakoff and Johnson, which is a groundbreaking cognitive theory of idiom. This study also provides the reader with access to real language, through example sentences and gives explanation about some English idiomatic expressions containing body parts, with the help of the three cognitive mechanisms, general conventional knowledge, conceptual metonymies and conceptual metaphors, which seem to be the key elements motivating many idioms. The focus of this book is to analyze abstract target domai...