ANT253H1 Lecture Notes - Gustav Fechner, Proverb, Synecdoche

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31 Mar 2013
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A linguistic feature that describes the relationship between language and thought. They are commonly seen in everyday language e. g being cool/lukewarm about something. This shows we perceive feelings the same way we describe physical conditions. A psycholinguist who explained this feelings and physical conditions correlation. His quote explained that when we sense something first, we tend to extend that sense to describe other experiences. Approach to the study of language as a system of concepts grounded in metaphor. Both cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology share the same goals. Boar, sapir, whorf are refered to as linguistic anthropologist. But they can also be seen as cognitive linguist today since they saw metaphor as a means of adding a meaning to the system. Cognitive linguistics is really the modern version of the linguistic anthropology. Aristotle coined the term metaphor (meta = beyond; pherein = to carry) Explained how abstract concepts(e. g. life) can be thought of in concrete ways.

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