紀要論文

紀要論文

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言語文化共同研究プロジェクト. 2022, 2021, p. 55-69

The Cognitivist/Non-Cognitivist Divide in Metaphor Studies

Luke, Malik

英語

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2022-03-31

英語のレトリック・日本語のレトリック

One way to classify theories of metaphor is to apply the cognitivist/non-cognitivist distinction to them. Conceptual metaphor theory is called cognitivist (Knowles and Moon 2006). Donald Davidson’s theory of metaphor is called non-cognitivist (Donald Davidson 1978). The distinction comes from philosophy. There has been a paradigm shift in the study of metaphor toward cognitivist based theories. Thus the philosophical distinction should help us in distinguishing just which theories are relevant today. The problem is that the philosophical distinction does not correctly distinguish cognitivist theories from non-cognitivist theories. The article starts by introducing a classic way to divide theories of ethics and aesthetics between cognitivist and non-cognitivist labels. This method is applied to non-cognitivist theories of metaphor. It fails to classify these correctly. Next, a more contemporary set of criteria are introduced. These criteria are associated with Elizabeth Camp and Marga Reimer. The criteria are shown to again misclassify non-cognitivist theories of metaphor. A revision is suggested. It fails to file cognitivist theories properly. Classic and contemporary philosophical ways of dividing metaphorical theories between cognitivist or non-cognitivist labels fail.

10.18910/88423

88423

The Cognitivist/Non-Cognitivist Divide in Metaphor Studies

Luke, Malik

大阪大学大学院言語文化研究科

英語

2022-03-31

言語文化共同研究プロジェクト

2021

55

69

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/88423

10.18910/88423

https://doi.org/10.18910/88423