A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI:10.1080/10926488.2022.2058398

Van-Hoa Phan, Quynh-Thu Ho-Trinh

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper aims to uncover the underlying metaphorical expressions regarding the importance of love to human life in English and Vietnamese poetry based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which suggests that metaphor is based on human thought as well as on language. For metaphor identification, the authors use a five-step procedure based on Pragglejaz Group’s method for metaphorical expressions and a self-proposed three-step procedure for conceptual metaphors. The findings reveal that love is metaphorically expressed to have a considerable influence on both the physical and mental aspects of human life. This paper is also a comparative investigation showing both similarities and differences in the love-life metaphorical expressions between the two languages. The similarities are explained by the same grounding of metaphor-embodiment and the universality of conceptual metaphors. The differences are attributed to cultural distinction.

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诗歌爱情生活关系的认知考察

摘要本文旨在从概念隐喻理论的角度揭示英越诗歌中关于爱对人类生活重要性的隐喻表达。概念隐喻理论认为，隐喻是基于人类思维和语言的。在隐喻识别方面，作者使用了基于Pragglejaz Group的隐喻表达方法的五步程序和自己提出的概念隐喻的三步程序。研究结果表明，爱被比喻为对人类生活的生理和心理方面都有相当大的影响。本文还对两种语言在爱情生活隐喻表达上的异同进行了比较研究。隐喻体现的相同基础和概念隐喻的普遍性解释了两者的相似性。这种差异归因于文化差异。

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期刊介绍： Metaphor and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal is an innovative, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of metaphor and other figurative devices in language (e.g., metonymy, irony) and other expressive forms (e.g., gesture and bodily actions, artworks, music, multimodal media). The journal is interested in original, empirical, and theoretical research that incorporates psychological experimental studies, linguistic and corpus linguistic studies, cross-cultural/linguistic comparisons, computational modeling, philosophical analyzes, and literary/artistic interpretations. A common theme connecting published work in the journal is the examination of the interface of figurative language and expression with cognitive, bodily, and cultural experience; hence, the journal''s international editorial board is composed of scholars and experts in the fields of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, literature, and media studies.