In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that
augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual …

Despite its popularity in and outside cognitive linguistics, cognitive metaphor theory (CMT)
has received a wide range of criticisms in the past two decades. Several metaphor …

Researching and applying metaphor in the real world/edited by Graham Low...[et al.]. p.
cm.(Human Cognitive Processing, issn 1387-6724; v. 26) Includes bibliographical …

This study presents an approach to metaphor that systematically takes contextual factors into
account. It analyses how metaphors both depend on, and change, the context in which they …

Conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) started with George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's book
Metaphors We Live By (1980). The theory goes back a long way and builds on centuries of …

The importance of metaphor to human language and cognition cannot be over emphasized.
This importance is well summarized by Malotki (1983: 13) when he writes: Man, in …

This chapter proposes a critical analysis of the theoretical postulates of the conceptual of
metaphor theory (CMT) and an attempt to suggest a comprehensive version of this theory …

This article discusses some of the claims of the earlier and later versions of the
Contemporary Theory of Metaphor (CTM) and addresses some of the criticism that has been …

The title of this chapter needs immediate expansion:“some types of metaphor” would be a
more exact, if too long a title. A major claim of this chapter is that there is no single …

Cognitive theories of metaphor understanding are typically described in terms of the
mappings between different kinds of abstract, schematic, disembodied knowledge. My claim …