Metaphors and Categories

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4375227
AutoresYeshayahu Shen (0000-0002-7918-6834, autor correspondente)
Ano1992
Volume13
Fascículo4
Páginas771
Data de publicação1992-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1773298
OpenAlexW2313932733
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas11

Despite the obvious affinity between the study of metaphor and the study of categorization, the link between these two fields of research has received little attention in cognitive psychology or in other disciplines. The purpose of the present study is precisely to establish and develop that link between those two research fields. After outlining the main recent developments in the modern study of categorization, focusing on the introduction of ad hoc categories, six major observations made in recent studies of metaphor comprehension (concerning, for example, the distinction between metaphors and non-metaphors, the asymmetry of metaphors, interpretation preference in metaphors, and the aptness of metaphors) are introduced. The main argument holds that these observations can be accounted for in a parsimonious and coherent way by assuming that metaphor comprehension is, in fact, a process of (ad hoc) category formation. The final section relates this proposal to alternative theories

Linguistics · Action Observation and Synchronization · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy