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Metaphors in Conceptual Frameworks
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What is the main focus in Post-Kantian European philosophy and cognitive linguistics?

  • The study of the dual function of metaphor in creating provisional meanings (correct)
  • The critique of traditional conceptions of metaphor grounded in truthlikeness
  • The analysis of the link between tenor and vehicle in metaphors
  • The examination of how meaning shifts in language

    • According to Nietzsche, what is the essence of truth in metaphors?

  • A provisional creation of meanings for concepts
  • A fixed set of human relations subject to poetic intensification
  • A sum of human relations subjected to rhetorical decoration
  • A collection of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms that are relativized (correct)

    • In the study of rhetoric, what are the two parts of a metaphor called?

  • Target domain and source domain
  • Likeness and similarity
  • Truth and truthlikeness
  • Tenor and vehicle (correct)

    • What does Nietzsche's comparison of metaphor to the Roman God Janus symbolize?

    <p>Metaphor as a bridge between past origins and future horizons of meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the pragmatic function of metaphor in the context of the book discussed?

    <p>Providing a pragmatic service to cognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Lakoff and Johnson, how is our ordinary conceptual framework best described?

    <p>Fundamentally metaphorical</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Contrary to the 'standard view' of metaphor, what does Lakoff and Johnson propose about the relationship between metaphor and concepts?

    <p>Metaphors condition concepts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does Aristotle define metaphor in contrast to the 'standard view'?

    <p>The direct application of a word to another thing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one significant implication of the relevance of metaphor to fields like philosophy, medicine, and grammar?

    <p>Metaphor's greater importance beyond linguistics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What two aspects make up the Aristotelian paradigm of Metaphor according to the text?

    <p>Transference and analogy</p> Signup and view all the answers

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