Seeing What We Know

Disability and Theories of Metaphor

Bibliographic Data

ID15558043
AuthorsAmy Vidali (University of Colorado Denver, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume4
Issue1
Pages33-54
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1757-6458 • E-ISSN: 1757-6466
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1353/jlc.0.0032
OpenAlexW2017007947
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited16

The article examines the role of disability in George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s popular theories of cognitive metaphor and metaphor acquisition, and concludes that these theories are ableist in assuming that bodies have particular physical/cognitive/sensory experiences and related metaphorical expressions. In response, a disability approach to metaphor is suggested that engages the diversity of disability; refrains from policing metaphor; encourages transgression from the disability community; and invites creative and artistic reinterpretations of metaphor. This new approach is grounded in a critique of the metaphor knowing is seeing , which is commonly employed in academic writing and engaged in Lakoff and Johnson’s work

Art · Disability studies · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Writing and Handwriting Education

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