Researching Metaphors: Towards a Comprehensive Account

272 Pages·2022·2.46 MB·English

by  Michele Prandi, Micaela Rossi

Researching Metaphors
This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor,
extending the feld’s focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional
metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities aforded by the study
of living metaphors.
The volume brings together a diverse range of researchers in the discipline
towards critically examining the presuppositions of the cognitive approach.
The book shines a light on living metaphors – creative interpretations of
confictual meaning specifc to a text or communicative act with their
own unique functions – to throw into relief long-held tenets in existing
metaphor research. Chapters refect on the notion that creative metaphors
spring from independent sources, not merely from metaphorical concepts,
and the subsequent implications for our understanding of the relationship
between linguistic forms and conceptual structures and the role of creative
metaphors in organizing thought and action. Taken together, the book
ofers a complementary vision of languages and fgures which integrates
disparate lines of study within the cognitive paradigm with alternative
perspectives for a more comprehensive portrait of metaphors.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the
study of metaphor, including such disciplines as theoretical linguistics,
cognitive linguistics, semantics, literary studies, and philosophy of
language.
Michele Prandi was professor of Linguistics at the Universities of Geneva,
Pavia, Bologna, and Genoa. He is Doctor Honoris Causa at the University
of Uppsala. His main research felds are semantics of complex expressions,
conditions of signifcance, natural ontology and conceptual analysis, and
metaphor and fgurative language in their grammatical and conceptual
aspects.
Micaela Rossi is professor of French Language and Translation at the
University of Genoa. Her research interests focus on the formation of
new metaphorical terminologies in technical and scientifc vocabularies,
as well as on the textual and discursive dynamics that determine their
fxation within socio-professional communities of use.
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction 1
MICHELE PRANDI AND MICAELA ROSSI
PART 1
Bridging conventional and living metaphors 27
1 Some recent issues in conceptual metaphor theory 29
ZOLTÁN KÖVECSES
2 Creative metaphors and conceptual conficts: the
requirements of consistency as ontological presuppositions 42
MARCO FASCIOLO
3 Formal syntax and textual coherence: two wellsprings
for conceptual conficts 60
MICHELE PRANDI
4 Hidden reference in the creation of metaphor 77
RICHARD TRIM
5 Types of metaphors and their structure: annotation
guidelines between theory and practice 91
FRANCESCA STRIK LIEVERS
vi Contents
PART 2
Conventional and creative metaphors in special
concepts and terms 109
6 Terminological metaphors: framing for better
and for worse . . . 111
RITA TEMMERMAN
7 Creating metaphors in specialised languages: choice criteria
for the success of metaphorical terms 132
MICAELA ROSSI
8 Refections on metaphors and models in connection
with theory building in economics 148
CATHERINE RESCHE
9 Specialized concepts and the career of metaphors:
the diachronic development of ANGER IS A HOT FLUID and
LOVE IS A JOURNEY from Latin to Old Italian 161
CHIARA FEDRIANI
PART 3
Living and conventional metaphors in use: texts,
discourses, genres, translation 185
10 Metaphor in understanding literary characters 187
RAYMOND W. GIBBS, JR. AND CARINA RASSE
11 The driving role of stereotypy in proverbial metaphors 205
MARC BONHOMME
12 Social movements and metaphor: the case of
#FridaysForFuture 224
ELISABETTA ZURRU
13 Shakespeare’s metaphorical swarms in The Two Gentlemen
of Verona: textual and pragmatic features and their impact
on the Italian translation 245
ILARIA RIZZATO
Index 260
Contributors
Marc Bonhomme is professor emeritus of French Linguistics at the Uni-
versity of Bern (Switzerland). He is the author of Les Figures clés du
discours (1998), Le Discours métonymique (2006), L’Argumentation
publicitaire (with J.-M. Adam, 2012), and Pragmatique des fgures
du discours (2014). He recently edited Métaphore et argumentation
(2017) with A.-M. Paillet and Ph. Wahl. He has also published numer-
ous articles in the felds of rhetoric and discourse analysis.
Marco Fasciolo is associate professor in French and General Linguistics
at Sorbonne University (UR STIH), France. He has published Rethink-
ing Presuppositions: From Natural Ontology to Lexicon (Cambridge
Scholars, 2019), Grammaire philosophique du verbe (Classiques Gar-
nier, 2021), and La sintassi del lessico (with Gaston Gross, UTET,
2021). His main research interests are situated at the interface between
linguistics and philosophy and concern the description of the ontology
presupposed by natural lexicons.
Chiara Fedriani is assistant professor in Linguistics at the University of
Genova. Her research interests are historical linguistics and Latin lin-
guistics, where she has primarily focused on pragmatic phenomena,
conceptual and creative metaphors, and on changes at the syntax–
semantic interface involving case, argument structure, and semantic
roles. Within the latter strand of research, she has published Expe-
riential Constructions in Latin (Brill, 2014) and The Diachrony of
Ditransitives (co-edited with Maria Napoli, De Gruyter, 2020). She
has been principal investigator of the project The Lexicon of Embodied
Experience in Latin (2019–2021), which explored how Latin speakers
“made sense” of their bodily experience of the spatial environment to
express metaphorically quintessential abstract concepts, such as feel-
ings and emotions.
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. is an independent cognitive scientist and former
Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Califor-
nia, Santa Cruz. His research interests focus on embodied cognition,
viii Contributors
pragmatics, and fgurative language. He is the author of many books,
including The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and
Understanding (1994), Intentions in the Experience of Meaning
(1999), Embodiment and Cognitive Science (2006), Metaphor Wars:
Conceptual Metaphor in Human Life (2017), and Interpreting Figura-
tive Meaning (with Herb Colston, 2012), all published by Cambridge
University Press. He is also editor of the Cambridge Handbook of
Metaphor and Thought (CUP, 2008).
Zoltán Kövecses is professor emeritus in the School of English and Ameri-
can Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research focuses
on conceptual metaphor theory. His latest books include Extended
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Cambridge UP, 2020) and Where Meta-
phors Come From (Oxford UP, 2015).
Michele Prandi was professor of Linguistics at the Universities of
Geneva, Pavia, Bologna, and Genoa. He is Doctor Honoris Causa at
the University of Uppsala. His main research felds are semantics of
complex expressions, conditions of signifcance, natural ontology and
conceptual analysis, and metaphor and fgurative language in their
grammatical and conceptual aspects. Among his publications are
Sémantique du contresens (Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1987), Gram-
maire philosophique des tropes (Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1992
[Spanish transl: Gramática flosófca de los tropos, Madrid, Visor,
1995]), The Building Blocks of Meaning (Amsterdam/Philadelphia,
John Benjamins, 2004), La fnalité: fondements conceptuels et genèse
linguistique (with Gaston Gross, Bruxelles, De Boeck – D uculot,
2004), La fnalità: Strutture concettuali e forme di espressione in
italiano (with Gaston Gross and Cristiana De Santis, Florence, Leo
S. Olschki, 2005), Le regole e le scelte: Grammatica italiana (Turin,
UTET, 2006 [2020]), L’analisi del periodo (Rome, Carocci, 2013),
Conceptual Conficts in Metaphor and Figurative Language (New
York/London, Routledge, 2017), and Le metafore tra le fgure: Una
mappa ragionata (Turin, UTET, 2021).
Carina Rasse received her Ph.D. in Linguistics (2021) at the Alpen-
Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt (Austria) and is now doing post-doctoral
research at this university. She is interested in metaphor, applied lin-
guistics, and cognitive poetics.
Catherine Resche, professor emerita at Université Panthéon-Assas – Paris 2,
and a member of the Celiso research unit (Centre de linguistique en
Sorbonne, Paris-Sorbonne Université), has extensive teaching experi-
ence in the feld of English for economics, fnance, and international
trade and management. The author of a great many articles in English
and French on terminology, neology, metaphor, discourse, and genre
analysis, she has also edited books on various aspects of specialised
Contributors ix
varieties of English. Alongside her local responsibilities in her univer-
sity (as head of the language department), she was actively involved
nationwide in the French national association of English professors and
lecturers (SAES) as its general secretary for six years and in GERAS,
a national association dealing with ESP. She is also a Knight of the
French National Order of Merit and an Ofcer of the French Order of
Academic Palms.
Ilaria Rizzato is associate professor of English Language and Translation
at the University of Genoa, Italy, and a member of the scientifc com-
mittee of the Inter-University Centre for Metaphor Research (CIRM)
based at the same university. Her research interests lie primarily in met-
aphor studies, translation studies, and stylistics, with a special focus on
the translation of fgurative language, the expression of point of view
in text and the applications of pragmatics and stylistics to English to
Italian translation. She translated and edited The Two Gentlemen of
Verona for the latest and largest Italian edition of Shakespeare’s com-
plete works (Bompiani, 2014–2019).
Micaela Rossi is professor of French Language and Translation at the
University of Genoa. Her research interests focus on the formation of
new metaphorical terminologies in technical and scientifc vocabular-
ies, as well as on the textual and discursive dynamics that determine
their fxation within socio-professional communities of use. Among her
publications is In rure alieno: Métaphores et termes nomades dans les
langues de spécialité (Bern, Peter Lang, 2015).
Francesca Strik Lievers is assistant professor in Linguistics at the Univer-
sity of Genoa, Italy. Her main research interests are in lexical seman-
tics and fgurative language. She has worked on the Italian verbal
lexicon and on the linguistic encoding of sensory experience and has
conducted extensive research on synaesthetic metaphors, trying to
understand the linguistic and perceptual mechanisms that may explain
their behaviour.
Rita Temmerman was full professor in Translation and Terminology and
Multilingual Intercultural Communication at Vrije Universiteit Brus-
sel until she retired in 2019. Her research contributed to the socio-
cognitive approach in terminology studies. She focuses on issues related
to special language and terminology, such as application-oriented
multilingual terminology analysis and understanding terminology cre-
ation in cognitive, linguistic, cultural, and situational contexts. She
has published on cognitive semantics and special language, metaphor
in cognition, dynamics of understanding and terminology creation,
intercultural and multilingual communication, secondary term forma-
tion, terminology harmonisation within the EU, sensory experience
and descriptors, and translanguaging.