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Published 2013.
Why does spiritual wealth refer to spiritual accomplishments, whereas blood-stained wealth indicates ill-gotten financial wealth? Both phrases are metaphoric, yet they evoke metaphor in different ways. Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language explains distinctions ...
Published 2013.
Why does spiritual wealth refer to spiritual accomplishments, whereas blood-stained wealth indicates ill-gotten financial wealth? Both phrases are metaphoric, yet they evoke metaphor in different ways. Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language explains distinctions such as these in terms of constructional and frame semantics, which are argued to shape the linguistic expression of conceptual metaphor in language. Frames and Constructions expands and updates the categorization of metaphoric forms in A Grammar of Metaphor (Brooke-Rose, 1958) from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. Metaphoric language, it is argued, piggybacks on the same patterns of constructional meaning found in non-metaphoric language. Recognizing the shared semantic structure of metaphoric and non-metaphoric language allows recent findings from Frame Semantics, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar to be applied to the study of how conceptual metaphor surfaces in language.
