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You don't say: Figurative language and thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Gregory A. Bryant
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Social Sciences II, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064 gbryant@ucsc.edugibbs@ucsc.edu
Raymond W. Gibbs
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Social Sciences II, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064 gbryant@ucsc.edugibbs@ucsc.edu

Abstract

Carruthers has proposed a novel and quite interesting hypothesis for the role of language in conceptual integration, but his treatment does not acknowledge work in cognitive science on metaphor and analogy that reveals how diverse knowledge structures are integrated. We claim that this body of research provides clear evidence that cross-domain conceptual connections cannot be driven by syntactic processes alone.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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