Modality Specific Metaphors
Is Our Mental Machinery "Colored" by a Visual Bias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19429280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon G Gallup, Gordon G Gallup Jr, Patricia A Cameron |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 93-98 |
| Publication date | 1992-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Metaphor and Symbolic Activity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-7253 • E-ISSN: 2379-0288 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327868ms0702_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2012501276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 5 |
Unlike the use of metaphors drawn from other sensory modalities (e.g., "cold turkey," "hard times," "rough draft"), there appears to be a peculiar predisposition in English to use visual terms as metaphors to describe or capture mental events (e.g., "a dim wit," "as illustrated by," "a flash of genius," "picture the following," "reflect on that," "see what I mean," "a brilliant scholar," "shed some light," "bright idea," "a clear explanation "). We contend that this visual/mental metaphorical bias may be a by-product of our primate/arboreal heritage, which put a premium on vision, and we present preliminary evidence that a comparable tendency to describe mental states using visual metaphors may be present in other contemporary and ancient languages as well
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Colored · Developmental psychology · Genius · Mental image · Sensory system · Sociology · Stimulus modality · Anthropology · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Multisensory perception and integration · Neuroscience · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2022 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |