The Grounding of Conceptual Metaphor in Bodily Experience

DOI

10.2991/amca-18.2018.149How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Conceptual metaphor, Grounding, Bodily experience, News report

Abstract

The capacity using and understanding language is a special gift from God to human being, and metaphor is one of those features contributing to that specialty. Metaphor, viewed from a cognitive viewpoint, is a kind of thinking or understanding something in terms of something else. This poses the problem of the possibility of grounding metaphor in experience, that is the grounding of understanding one thing in terms of another. This is the problem of grounding. This article investigates that problem by analysing daily metaphors as they are used in newspaper news story by employing cognitive framework. Based on the analysis of the various metaphors used in the news text, it is found that those metaphors are based on correlations with the bodily experience (as it appears in spatial metaphors) and a certain anthropomorphistic tendency (as it appears in personification). Thus, the investigation into the foundation of metaphors shows that ontologically there are dynamics between human situatedness in the world and human activity as agents whose position as the center of experience.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ajang Budiman
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TI  - The Grounding of Conceptual Metaphor in Bodily Experience
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 538
EP  - 540
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/amca-18.2018.149
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