By Hans-Jörg Schmid, Sandra Handl
Targeting a variety of linguistic constructions, the articles during this quantity discover the explanatory power of 2 of the main influential cognitive-linguistic theories, conceptual metaphor and metonymy concept and conceptual mixing concept. no matter if enthusiastic or serious of their stance, the members search to augment our figuring out of the way traditional in addition to inventive methods of pondering impact our language and vice versa.
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The individual level is the level at which individual speakers of a given language use the metaphors that are available to them at the supra-individual level in actual communicative situations, but this is also the level at which they create new metaphors. This is the level that is characterized by such issues as the selection of metaphors for particular communicative purposes; how people think online when using metaphors; how the context of communication constrains the use of metaphors; and how metaphors can organize or otherwise structure actual texts or discourses (Kövecses 2002: 239–245).
Let us take the following expressions as examples: Add fuel to the fire and flare up, as in His stupid comment just added fuel to the fire and The argument flared up between them. Although we can be sure that what motivates the expressions is the ARGUMENT IS FIRE conceptual metaphor, Dobrovol’skij and Piirainen would maintain that the difference in their meaning is not explained by the conceptual metaphor alone. The meaning ‘to increase the intensity of the argument’ (in the case of add fuel to the fire) and the meaning ‘the intensity of the argument increases suddenly’ (in the case of flare up) are significantly different, but the difference is not captured by the theory of conceptual metaphor.
Thus, the notion of semantic analyzability that is based on the idea of semantic quasi-autonomy of particular idiom constituents seems to be a useful theoretical instrument for explaining not only the discursive behaviour of idioms, but also speakers’ background intuition. That is why such a view on analyzability is favoured by cognitive semantics. This view of analyzability is preferred by many linguists working in the field of idiom research regardless of their involvement in cognitively oriented research communities.