THE ISSUE OF COGNITIVIST MODELS OF METAPHOR COMPREHENSION
THE ISSUE OF COGNITIVIST MODELS OF METAPHOR COMPREHENSION

Summary/Abstract: The Issue of Cognitivist Models of Metaphor Comprehension. Metaphor is one of the most controversial phenomena of the last few of decades, and connected to it are some very interesting methodologies propounded in philosophy, literary studies, and more recently cognitive science. In this paper we will discuss some of the most viable theories coming from the field of cognitive science, in an attempt to tease out some of their merits and shortcomings and to list some of the key issues they propose regarding the comprehension of metaphor. In view of this, we have chosen three of the most representative cognitivist models, all of which put forward a different mechanism to account for the comprehension process: George Lakoff and Mark Turner’s conceptual metaphor model, Sam Glucksberg’s interactive property attribution model and Dedre Gentner’s structural alignment model.

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