From the Sea to the Sky: Metaphorically Mapping Water to Air

IF 2.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/10926488.2020.1804809
Hamad Al-Azary, Christina L. Gagné, T. Spalding
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ABSTRACT Countless conceptual metaphors related to human experience (e.g., LIFE IS A JOURNEY) have been identified and discussed in the literature. In most conceptual metaphors, a concrete, experiential source domain (e.g., JOURNEY) is used as a basis for partially structuring a more abstract target domain (e.g., LIFE). However, in some conceptual metaphors, concrete source domains (e.g., FLUID) structure target domains that are also concrete (e.g., LIGHT). Such concrete conceptual metaphors are relatively infrequent and have generally received less attention in the literature compared to abstract conceptual metaphors. In this paper, we argue that AIR is metaphorically understood in terms of another experiential domain; namely, WATER. This hydro-aero mapping we introduce is characterized by three particular conceptual metaphors; AIR MOTION IS WATER MOTION, MOVING IN AIR IS MOVING IN WATER, and AIR TRAVEL IS SEA TRAVEL. Furthermore, the hydro-aero mapping is instantiated by numerous compound and non-compound words. We show how the hydro-aero mapping can be historically traced in the English language by using the Oxford English Dictionary. Finally, we describe how the hydro-aero mapping, along with other concrete mappings, is critical for communication, aligns with theoretical approaches to metaphorical cognition, and raises considerable questions regarding the nature of metaphorical structuring.
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从海洋到天空:隐喻地将水映射到空气
无数与人类经验相关的概念隐喻(例如,生命是一场旅行)已经在文献中被识别和讨论。在大多数概念隐喻中,一个具体的、经验的源域(如“旅程”)被用作部分构建一个更抽象的目标域(如“生活”)的基础。然而,在一些概念隐喻中,具体的源域(例如FLUID)构造了同样是具体的目标域(例如LIGHT)。这种具体的概念隐喻相对较少,与抽象的概念隐喻相比,在文献中受到的关注较少。在本文中,我们认为AIR是隐喻性地理解在另一个经验领域;也就是说,水。我们介绍的这种水-空气映射以三个特定的概念隐喻为特征;空气运动就是水运动,在空气中运动就是在水中运动,空中旅行就是海上旅行。此外,水-航空映射由大量的复合词和非复合词实例化。我们将通过使用牛津英语词典来展示如何在英语中追溯水-空气映射的历史。最后,我们描述了水-空气映射以及其他具体映射如何对交流至关重要,与隐喻认知的理论方法一致,并提出了关于隐喻结构本质的相当大的问题。
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期刊介绍: Metaphor and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal is an innovative, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of metaphor and other figurative devices in language (e.g., metonymy, irony) and other expressive forms (e.g., gesture and bodily actions, artworks, music, multimodal media). The journal is interested in original, empirical, and theoretical research that incorporates psychological experimental studies, linguistic and corpus linguistic studies, cross-cultural/linguistic comparisons, computational modeling, philosophical analyzes, and literary/artistic interpretations. A common theme connecting published work in the journal is the examination of the interface of figurative language and expression with cognitive, bodily, and cultural experience; hence, the journal''s international editorial board is composed of scholars and experts in the fields of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, literature, and media studies.
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