Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Parsing, Mass Noun, Conceptual Metaphor

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Analogy the act comparing one concept with another concept to show similarity in their meanings. This often highlights a deep similarity between the concepts, even though they are not related on the surface. Analogies are often used for explaining things, because the speaker and listener are assumed know more about one concept than the other. Arbitrary in linguistics, language is described as arbitrary if the form of a word does not need to have direct correspondence with the thing it refers to. Conceptual metaphor a theory put forth by george lakoff claiming that many of the expressions we use are related to abstract metaphors in the mind. Expressions like spend some time or it cost me a half a day arise because we have a cultural conceptual metaphor (time is. Money) that causes us to think about these two concepts in a related way.