Cognitive-ontological approach to metaphor
Cognitive-ontological approach to metaphor

Author(s): Zhanna Maslova, Denis Minakhin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: consciousness; cognitive poetics; mythological metaphor; mythological image; ontological system;
Summary/Abstract: The cognitive approach considers metaphor but there are no researches explaining the genesis of metaphor as mental phenomenon. Cognitive-ontological approach to the study of formation of metaphor makes it possible. Three ontological systems (human consciousness, world, language) are considered; initially these were not separated. In process of partial division between them some “nuclear” ideas have appeared (interference, authenticity, semblant). They were basic for some cognitive mechanisms. Metaphor developed from mythological metaphor and mythological image. Mythological metaphor was different from modern metaphor. It was the fi rst stage in metaphor developing. It is considered as a piece of mythological image represented in language and it had no function of free comparison of different objects. Mythological metaphor transformed when mythological image ruined.

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