How to recognize a metaphor when you see one
The claim that metaphors are pervasive in everyday life (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2002 [1980]) leads to the assumption that metaphors may occur virtually in every discursive domain we are aware of. However, ordinary speakers tend to find -- or expect to find -- such expressions in some types of discourse ra...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Linguística |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs3.cadernos.abralin.org:article/546 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/546 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Metáfora Densidade metafórica Metaforicidade Metaphor Metaphor density Metaphoricity |
| Sumario: | The claim that metaphors are pervasive in everyday life (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2002 [1980]) leads to the assumption that metaphors may occur virtually in every discursive domain we are aware of. However, ordinary speakers tend to find -- or expect to find -- such expressions in some types of discourse rather than others. In light of this, this paper aims to investigate conceptual mechanisms which lead speakers to relate the occurrence of metaphors to some genres rather than others. Based on the notion of metaphoricity (DIENSTBACH, 2017), we carry out, on the one hand, the analysis of metaphor density (BERBER SARDINHA, 2011) and devices of metaphoricity (MÜLLER, 2008) in four corpora identified with a specific genre each -- poem, magazine cover, research paper, and drug information leaflets --; on the other hand, a survey of speakers's expectations of the metaphors occurrence in such genres. Results show a positive correlation between metaphor density and expectations of metaphor occurrence in only two out of the four genres -- poems and magazine covers. On the other hand, we identify positive correlation between devices of metaphoricity and speakers' expectations of metaphor occurrence in all four genres. From these results, we may draw the conclusion that, rather than only metaphor occurrence in texts, the amount and richness of devices of metaphoricity that mostly lead speakers to relate metaphors to certain genres rather than others. |
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