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Chapter 11. Grounding mental metaphors in touch

A corpus-based study of English and Polish
  • Marcin Trojszczak
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Perception Metaphors
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Abstract

This study aims to describe how experiences of tactile properties of physical objects give rise to metaphorical conceptualisations of mind and thought in English and Polish based on linguistic data from the British National Corpus and the National Corpus of Polish. This issue is approached from the perspective of corpus-based cognitive linguistics by combining the Theory of Objectification framework and the methodological tools of corpus linguistics. By analysing a wide range of tactile properties ascribed to the selected mental phenomena in light of the Theory of Objectification, the study aims to demonstrate how active, exploratory, tactile experiences of physical objects’ qualities ground our talk about impalpable cognitive phenomena.

Abstract

This study aims to describe how experiences of tactile properties of physical objects give rise to metaphorical conceptualisations of mind and thought in English and Polish based on linguistic data from the British National Corpus and the National Corpus of Polish. This issue is approached from the perspective of corpus-based cognitive linguistics by combining the Theory of Objectification framework and the methodological tools of corpus linguistics. By analysing a wide range of tactile properties ascribed to the selected mental phenomena in light of the Theory of Objectification, the study aims to demonstrate how active, exploratory, tactile experiences of physical objects’ qualities ground our talk about impalpable cognitive phenomena.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Chapter 1. Perception metaphors 1
  5. Chapter 2. Words of sense 17
  6. Chapter 3. Perception metaphors in cognitive linguistics 43
  7. Chapter 4. Perception metaphor in English 65
  8. Chapter 5. Metaphors and perception in the lexicon 85
  9. Chapter 6. Synaesthetic metaphors are neither synaesthetic nor metaphorical 105
  10. Chapter 7. Sensory experiences, meaning and metaphor 127
  11. Chapter 8. Taste metaphors in Hieroglyphic Egyptian 145
  12. Chapter 9. Why do we understand music as moving? 165
  13. Chapter 10. Approaching perceptual qualities 185
  14. Chapter 11. Grounding mental metaphors in touch 209
  15. Chapter 12. Polysemy of the Estonian perception verb nägema ‘to see’ 231
  16. Chapter 13. Evidential vindication in next turn 253
  17. Chapter 14. Sensory perception metaphors in sign languages 275
  18. Chapter 15. Metaphors of perception in Japanese Sign Language 303
  19. Chapter 16. Perception and metaphor 327
  20. Chapter 17. Perception verbs in context 347
  21. List of metaphors 369
  22. Index 373
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.19.11tro

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Chapter 1. Perception metaphors 1
  5. Chapter 2. Words of sense 17
  6. Chapter 3. Perception metaphors in cognitive linguistics 43
  7. Chapter 4. Perception metaphor in English 65
  8. Chapter 5. Metaphors and perception in the lexicon 85
  9. Chapter 6. Synaesthetic metaphors are neither synaesthetic nor metaphorical 105
  10. Chapter 7. Sensory experiences, meaning and metaphor 127
  11. Chapter 8. Taste metaphors in Hieroglyphic Egyptian 145
  12. Chapter 9. Why do we understand music as moving? 165
  13. Chapter 10. Approaching perceptual qualities 185
  14. Chapter 11. Grounding mental metaphors in touch 209
  15. Chapter 12. Polysemy of the Estonian perception verb nägema ‘to see’ 231
  16. Chapter 13. Evidential vindication in next turn 253
  17. Chapter 14. Sensory perception metaphors in sign languages 275
  18. Chapter 15. Metaphors of perception in Japanese Sign Language 303
  19. Chapter 16. Perception and metaphor 327
  20. Chapter 17. Perception verbs in context 347
  21. List of metaphors 369
  22. Index 373
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