Cognititve linguistics

[flashpig]

What is this?

[Quizmonster]

If you click here, that will link you to an encyclop�dia web-page which should be helpful. Once there, there are lots of blue-coloured links to click on and take you further into the topic.

[flashpig]

Thanks, but it was the conceptual metaphor thing which I was wondering about I think. I grouped it all together because I'm not sure about it. Is this the same as the Sapir Whorf thing?

[Quizmonster]

If you click here, that will link you to a web-page which deals with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis...again with lots of further linkages.

Re 'conceptual metaphor' it is dealt with in one of the links within the web-page provided by my earlier response.

[flashpig]

I'm glad the website says they have not yet meshed together as a coherent whole. I don't understand what the hell it is about. So would you use Cognitive Linguistics to look at how we have come up with language? Or does it look at how we are made to see the world using language? Which is why I was wondering if this was the same as the Sapir Whorf thing. Or none of the above? And... aren't all metaphors conceptual?

[Quizmonster]

I'm no expert on modern linguistics, Flash, but was just trying to find helpful websites. My partner knows considerably more on the topic than I do, so I'll tell her your question is here. If she has time, I hope she can offer some help. Cheers

[Tefler]

The best (and most concise) definition I've found for 'conceptual metaphor' is: "Conceptual metaphor: In cognitive linguistics metaphor is defined as understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain, e.g. one person's life experience versus another's. A conceptual domain is any coherent organization of experience." This comes from http://www.fact-index.com/c/co/conceptual_metaphor.html Hope that's of some use.