... in the Confucian scholar Mao Heng's exegesis of the Book of Poems ( Shijing , China's oldest collection of poetry). Polemically, I suggest that the poetics of the second century b.c. and its interest in metaphoricity originated in a philosophizing on the phenomenon of illusion , that is, the deceptive resemblance...

...Marie-Laure Ryan The concept of narrative has been widely invoked by theorists of digital textuality, but the promotion of what is described as the storytelling power of the computer has often relied on shallow metaphors, loose conceptions of narrative, and literary models that ignore...

... it. By introducing the concepts of minding, metaphor, and icon as structures of the imagination, I show how the language of poetic expression in Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” enables us to apprehend the ways we intuitively participate in the reality that underlies our conscious experience. Such participation...

...David S. Danaher Russian has two words corresponding to English truth and four words corresponding to English lie . While studies have detailed the semantic and pragmatic differences between these two terms, how these domains are metaphorized in everyday language—and exploited in literature—has yet...

...Pradeep Sopory Metaphors are both cognitive and affective in their meaning. However, a discussion of affect has been absent from recent theories of metaphor comprehension. This article looks at how affect, broadly conceptualized as positive and negative valence, may interact with cognition during...

...Margaret H. Freeman © 2008 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Masako K. Hiraga, Metaphor and Iconicity: A Cognitive Approach to Analysing Texts . Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xvi + 261 pp. Barcelona, Antonio, ed. 2000 Metaphor and Metonymy...

...Daniel W. Gleason In this essay I investigate how image metaphors—metaphors that link one concrete object to another, such as “her spread hand was a starfish”—promote visualization in the reader. Focusing on image metaphors in Imagist poetry, I assert that the two terms (e.g., the hand...

...Eyal Segal Ritchie L. David , Metaphor . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . ix + 240 pp. © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders, eds., A Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship...

...Chanita Goodblatt; Joseph Glicksohn The authors first present the interaction theory of metaphor, emphasizing its notion of bidirectionality. They then discuss the relationship between bidirectionality and blending, making explicit the different expectations regarding bidirectionality deriving from...

...Marcel Danesi Views on the role of metaphor in language have varied ever since Aristotle discovered it and described its features. Traditional accounts of metaphor have seen it as a form of comparison or substitution for literal language, or else a “deviant” form of semantics. This situation...

...Albert N. Katz; Hamad Al-Azary Received wisdom holds that there is a basic and intrinsic directionality in metaphor, wherein switching the target and source of a metaphor either leads to a loss of meaning or, if meaningful, is based on different sets of features. Here the authors review...

...Margaret H. Freeman In this article the author explores the notion of possible bidirectionality in metaphor through an examination of Black's (1962, 1993) interaction theory, Fauconnier and Turner's (2002) blending theory, and several studies that document cases of interdomain influence...

...Roy Porat; Yeshayahu Shen It is widely held that the direction of mapping from the source to the target domain in metaphors derives directly from the conceptual relations between its members (e.g., from concrete to abstract, from salient to less salient). In contrast, the authors propose...

... provided evidence that synesthesia might be bidirectional. Similarly, discussions of metaphors have suggested that metaphors are unidirectional and, in particular, move from the concrete to the abstract dimensions. For example, the smell of fish might induce suspicion (“Something smells fishy”). However...

...Eyal Segal Gibbs Raymond W. Jr. , ed., Mixing Metaphor . Amsterdam : John Benjamins , 2016 . xiv + 269 pp . © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 New Books at a Glance Kathrin Fahlenbrach, ed., Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games...

...Mark J. Bruhn This article proposes an essential pragmatic adjustment to the model of bidirectionality in verbal metaphor comprehension that has been developed from Max Black’s interaction theory of metaphor, most recently in the 2017 special issue of Poetics Today titled “Bidirectionality...

...Joseph Glicksohn Metaphor comprehension is not necessarily equivalent to metaphor production, nor do these necessarily refer to the same process. While both demand creative acts of cognition on the part of the reader and the poet, these are not necessarily the same type of creativity. Metaphor...

...Eyal Segal Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller, eds., Metaphor and Gesture . Amsterdam: Benjamins , 2008 . viii + 306 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound...

... communication milieu. The reception of the poetry by the specific listening audience is considered, with special attention given to the functioning of metaphor in relation to states of mind brought about by the use of psychedelics, such as LSD. The poetry itself is situated as both contribution...

...Pavlo Shopin In this article, the author analyzes spatial metaphors for voice in the work of Herta Müller. His analysis shows how she evokes spatial experience to convey her vision of voice. Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory and Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of defamiliarization, the author argues...