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The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for another. Metaphor, including its subcategories pars pro toto and metonymy, plays a crucial role in the formation of the earliest pristine invented scripts, yet this mechanism has been understudied from a cognitive, contextual, and comparative perspective. This article aims to address issues pertaining to the definition, development, and application of these mechanisms in the formation of the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Chinese scripts. We analyze the local cases of metaphor-in-action in primary inventions, focusing first on visual metaphors and, second, on the typical or idiosyncratic uses of metonyms.
古代发明的书写系统的基础在于其符号形状的主要标志性。然而，这些图形通常不是用于指代，而是以隐喻的方式使用，即一个实体代表另一个实体。隐喻，包括其子类别 "本体"（pars pro toto）和 "隐喻"（metonymy），在最早的原始发明文字的形成过程中起着至关重要的作用，然而，从认知、语境和比较的角度来看，对这一机制的研究一直不足。本文旨在探讨这些机制在美索不达米亚、埃及和中国文字形成过程中的定义、发展和应用问题。我们分析了主要发明中隐喻作用的本地案例，首先关注视觉隐喻，其次关注隐喻的典型或特殊用法。
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Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS) is an innovative new journal that covers all areas of cognitive science including cognitive modeling, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive anthropology, and cognitive science and philosophy. topiCS aims to provide a forum for: -New communities of researchers- New controversies in established areas- Debates and commentaries- Reflections and integration The publication features multiple scholarly papers dedicated to a single topic. Some of these topics will appear together in one issue, but others may appear across several issues or develop into a regular feature. Controversies or debates started in one issue may be followed up by commentaries in a later issue, etc. However, the format and origin of the topics will vary greatly.
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