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Chapter 8. Living is movement

A cognitive analysis of some Akan proverbs

Abstract

Proverbs, sayings, metaphors, and symbolism represent connections between physical experiences, their cognitive engagements and language, which becomes both a storage place and a promoter of this symbiosis. Departing from the universal life is a journey conventional metaphor, the study examines the representation of the connection between movement and living and how they are reflected in Akan philosophical values. Guided by Johnson’s schema theory, Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and Lakoff and Turner’s (1989) Great Chain Metaphor Theory, the study discusses the living is movement schema and component conceptual metaphors in Akan proverbs. It also examines related orientational metaphors including ‘success is up/away’ and security is in/within in the proverbs, linking all these cognitive representations of movement to the Akan philosophy of ‘life and its living’.

Abstract

Proverbs, sayings, metaphors, and symbolism represent connections between physical experiences, their cognitive engagements and language, which becomes both a storage place and a promoter of this symbiosis. Departing from the universal life is a journey conventional metaphor, the study examines the representation of the connection between movement and living and how they are reflected in Akan philosophical values. Guided by Johnson’s schema theory, Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor theory, and Lakoff and Turner’s (1989) Great Chain Metaphor Theory, the study discusses the living is movement schema and component conceptual metaphors in Akan proverbs. It also examines related orientational metaphors including ‘success is up/away’ and security is in/within in the proverbs, linking all these cognitive representations of movement to the Akan philosophy of ‘life and its living’.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Table of contents vii
  4. Editor and contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xiii
  6. List of tables and figures xv
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I. Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture
  9. Chapter 1. Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory 26
  10. Chapter 2. Metonymic layers in proverbs 40
  11. Chapter 3. Contradiction in proverbs 65
  12. Part II. A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs
  13. Chapter 4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti-proverbs 88
  14. Chapter 5. Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English 112
  15. Chapter 6. Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language 132
  16. Part III. Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures
  17. Chapter 7. Emotion in Greek proverbs 174
  18. Chapter 8. Living is movement 202
  19. Chapter 9. The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program 230
  20. Part IV. Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework
  21. Chapter 10. The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone 260
  22. Chapter 11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair 298
  23. Chapter 12. “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat” 328
  24. Index 349
Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.16.08sek

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Table of contents vii
  4. Editor and contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xiii
  6. List of tables and figures xv
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I. Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture
  9. Chapter 1. Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory 26
  10. Chapter 2. Metonymic layers in proverbs 40
  11. Chapter 3. Contradiction in proverbs 65
  12. Part II. A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs
  13. Chapter 4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti-proverbs 88
  14. Chapter 5. Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English 112
  15. Chapter 6. Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language 132
  16. Part III. Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures
  17. Chapter 7. Emotion in Greek proverbs 174
  18. Chapter 8. Living is movement 202
  19. Chapter 9. The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program 230
  20. Part IV. Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework
  21. Chapter 10. The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone 260
  22. Chapter 11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair 298
  23. Chapter 12. “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat” 328
  24. Index 349
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