ANT253H1 Chapter 11: Chapter 11
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Y anthromorphism shows that we experience various things as extensions of. Chapter 11 metaphor the human body. y the approach to the study of language as a system of concepts grounded in metaphor is known as cognitive linguistics (cl). What is metaphor? y unlike visible things, life cannot be shown to someone directly (example: animals, objects, plants). However, by comparing it to a stage, aristotle suggested, we gain a firm understanding of this concept nonetheless. y defining metaphor poses an interesting dilemma. As if by some cognitive metamorphosis, we now imagine the professor metamorphosing into a snake. y. It is an example of what the american philosopher charles peirce referred to as an abduction or. Informed hunch. y we are inclined to glean metaphorical meaning from any well-formed string of words, and that literal meaning is probably the exception in the interpretation of strings.
