Supervisors info:
Άννα Πιατά, εντεταλμένη διδάσκουσα στο Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Τμήμα Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας.
Summary:
This research aims to examine if and how two prominent theories can be combined in order to provide a comprehensive account of metaphorical expressions, i.e. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999, Lakoff 1993) and Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/1995, Carston 2010, Wilson 2011). One the one hand, for cognitive linguists, metaphor shapes human thought. It is a conceptual mapping that influences a good deal of how people talk, reason, and imagine in everyday life. One the other hand, Relevance Theory claims that metaphor understanding is based on pragmatic inferencing. Despite the fact that these two frameworks build on different assumptions and employ a different methodology in the study of metaphor, it has been suggested that they can, and in fact should, be reconciled (Tendahl and Gibbs 2008, Tendahl 2009, Wilson 2011, Piata forthcoming). This thesis wishes to extend this line of research to a non-literary context.
Keywords:
metaphor, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Relevance Theory, emotions, pain, non-propositional effects.