Smaki życia razem. Metafory wizualne w dyskursie dziecięcym
Visual metaphors in children's discourse

Author(s): Aleksander Gemel, Monika Wiśniewska-Kin
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Social Philosophy, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: theory of metaphor; cognitive linguistics; education; conceptualization
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the work is to create theoretical space for activities in the field of critical revision of the currently dominant education system. The first part is theoretical and is devoted to discussing the main assumptions and paths of the development of cognitive linguistics from which the cognitive theory of metaphor grows. The first chapter introduces the problem of metaphors. The second chapter introduces the assumptions of cognitive linguistics and the process of its development on the background of two great schools of language philosophy: Bloomfield's behaviorism and Chomsky's generativist theory. The third chapter discusses the main assumptions and basic problems of the cognitive theory of metaphor, which is later used as a theoretical paradigm of conducted research. The second part is empirical. Its main goal is to analyze children's metaphorical predispositions, especially the processes of understanding, recognizing, and creating metaphors of community. The reconstruction of children's idealized cognitive models undertaken in the research is aimed to recognize the culturally conditioned patterns of conceptualization of community experience, that are implicitly contained in metaphorical linguistic structures. These models determine - usually in addition to the speaker's consciousness - ways of thinking and acting. The reconstruction of these socio-cultural symbolic forms aimed to their further juxtaposition with the natural and spontaneous methods of metaphorical creativity of children. The goal of the fourth chapter of the work is to define the methodological assumptions of obtaining research material, including the definition of methods, techniques, and research tools, as well as the development of the organization and course of the research. The fifth chapter is devoted to the research itself.

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