33.3600, Books: The Moral Metaphor System: Yu

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:24:54
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: The Moral Metaphor System: Yu

 


Title: The Moral Metaphor System 
Subtitle: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-moral-metaphor-system-9780192866325?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Ning Yu

Hardback: ISBN:  9780192866325 Pages: 336 Price: ----  100


Abstract:

This book investigates moral metaphors in English and Chinese, applying
conceptual metaphor theory to a comparative study of the linguistic
manifestation of the moral metaphor system rooted in the domains of bodily and
physical experience. Ning Yu sheds light on the metaphorical nature of moral
cognition and how it is systematically manifested in language, and explores
the potential commonalities that define moral cognition in general, as well as
the differences that characterize distinct cultures. The work investigates
moral cognition at the cultural level as reflected in language, based on
linguistic evidence from both English and Chinese and, to a limited extent,
multimodal evidence from the corresponding cultures. The moral metaphor system
is taken to consist of three major subsystems, referred to as "physical",
"visual", and "spatial". These subsystems are clusters of conceptual
metaphors, whose source concepts are from domains of embodied experiences in
the physical world, and which are formulated in contrastive categories with
bipolar values for the target concepts of moral and immoral. The study is
characterized by two keywords: system and systematicity: The former refers to
the fact that metaphors (conceptual and linguistic) are connected within
networks, and the latter to the need for those metaphors to be studied in such
networks.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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