creators_name: Evola, Vito
creators_id: evola@unipa.it
editors_name: Casadio, Claudia
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2008-08-24 10:57:41
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:09
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title: La metafora come carrefour cognitivo del pensiero e del linguaggio
ispublished: inpress
subjects: ling-compara
subjects: phil-logic
subjects: psy-ling
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: appl-cog-psy
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: phil-sci
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: soc-psy
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: ling-learn
full_text_status: public
keywords: metafora, metafora concettuale, linguistica cognitiva, Lakoff & Johnson, metonimia
abstract: Nell’ultimo trentennio, le scienze cognitive hanno proposto una teoria alternativa a quelle che intendevano la metafora come strumento linguistico, cioè che il processo metaforico si potesse ridurre al livello letterale, semantico o pragmatico. Secondo la teoria della metafora concettuale, la metafora è un modo di rappresentare ed organizzare il nostro mondo, piuttosto che uno strumento semplicemente decorativo del linguaggio avente un ruolo puramente comunicativo. Questo shift paradigmatico ha influenzato anche altri aspetti delle scienze cognitive. In questo contributo si vuole delineare lo stato attuale della teoria esposta da Lakoff e Johnson e la maturazione del pensiero rispetto alla prima pubblicazione di Metaphors We Live By (1980/1998). Dopo avere illustrato i principi teorici, si daranno degli esempi di metafore culturali e multimodali e si puntualizzerà il ruolo analogo, ma distinto, alla metafora che la metonimia copre nell’ambito dei nostri sistemi concettuali.

date: 2008-09
date_type: published
publication: Vie della metafora: linguistica, filosofia, psicologia
publisher: Chieti: Editore Prime Vie – Sulmona
pagerange: 55-80
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Evola, Vito  (2008) La metafora come carrefour cognitivo del pensiero e del linguaggio.  [Book Chapter]    (In Press)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6113/1/evola-metafora-concettuale.pdf