All-Russian academic journal
“Issues of Cognitive Linguistics”
Author: Larissa V. Koulchitskaya
Affiliation: Far Eastern Federal University
Abstract:
Adopting a cognitive and usage-based approach to metaphor, the article provides an insight into distinctive criteria of hard-to-identify metaphors: cognitively active or inactive. It speculates on current conceptual metaphor hypotheses with a view to refining the identification procedure of metaphorical instantiations in language. The author's claim is that although cognitive linguists produce results only probabilistic by nature, linguists may – having at their disposal only linguistic material and methods – find proper support to the cognitive theory hypotheses and take them to be guidelines for distinguishing active metaphors from inactive.
Keywords: conceptual metaphor hypotheses; conceptual metaphor, verbal instantiations; metaphors: active, dormant, dead, alive; distinctive criteria.
Pages: 40-50