Raymond Gibbs Jr. Comment on Metaphor
Raymond Gibbs Jr., psycholinguist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, one of the principle adherents of cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphor theory, was kind enough to leave a comment...
View ArticleLakoff the Chomskyan?
You know things have taken a turn for the surreal when George Lakoff is described as “an admirer of Noam Chomsky.” I may dislike his linguistics and his political theory, but I have to pat him on the...
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Implicit Agency in Time-Space Metaphors
As I’ve said before, the primary (if not the only) real experimental evidence for conceptual metaphor theory — the theory that abstract concepts are structured by more concrete (i.e., closer to...
View ArticleSpace-Time Metaphors In Nonlinguistic Contexts
The last post on time-space metaphor research has sparked a really interesting discussion in the comments (go check it out), so I thought I’d talk about some more research to see if we can’t get even...
View ArticleTime-Space Metaphors: A Proposed Experiment
Earlier today I posted about the spatial and temporal ventriloquism aftereffects. One of the reasons I find those effects fascinating because I think they might hint at a counterargument to recent...
View ArticleMusic In the Mind: Is Pitch Represented On a Mental Line?
A friend of mine and I were having a conversation today, and one of us (I don’t remember who) brought up a poster that we’d seen at a conference a few years ago. Later, I wondered what had become of...
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What’s the Conceptual Metaphor for Disingenuous?
In case you haven’t heard about it, there’s a relatively new blog in the cognitive science section of the blog world called Cognitive Approaches to Literature. They don’t post very often over there,...
View ArticleConceptual Metaphor Comment by Dr. Gibbs
In the previous entry, I made some disparaging remarks about conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), and George Lakoff specifically. I also noted that, in my experience,, the psycholinguist Raymond Gibbs,...
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Explaining the War of the Metaphors1
In his comment to my post on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), reposted here, Dr. Gibbs writes: The topic of why conceptual metaphor theory arouses such vehemence is one that greatly interests me and...
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