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SUMMARY:Metaphor Talk
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DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture by Catalina Iricinschi\n\n"Metaphor and the Huma
 n Mind: Cognitive Frameworks for Figurative Language in Religion"\n\nStudi
 es in linguistics and language processing have consistently approached met
 aphor as somewhat of an exception to the ‘mainstream’ literal language
 . Far from being a fringe linguistic phenomenon\, metaphors are ubiquitous
  in all human languages. Descriptions of existing formal and functional th
 eories of language – grammars – are used here to highlight three dimen
 sions that are fundamental to metaphoric language: the status of semantics
  within the grammar\, the psychological reality of the proposed grammar\, 
 and the ability of the grammar to incorporate contextual information. As c
 ontext-dependent meaning mappings\, metaphors may indeed lie outside the s
 cope of certain formal grammar theories.\n\nHowever\, empirical evidence f
 rom cognitive psychology indicates that metaphor comprehension is not sign
 ificantly different from the processing of literal expressions\, with one 
 notable exception: metaphors of religious phenomena. As research data indi
 cate\, conceptual mappings elicited by religious metaphors result in cogni
 tively dissonant processes\, most likely due to the absence of perceivable
  referents.\n\n 
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/metaphor-talk/
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