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Dynamics without a framework? Towards an ecological-enactive approach to the dynamical view of metaphor

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Dynamics without a framework? Towards an ecological-enactive approach to the dynamical view of metaphor

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Recently several attempts were undertaken to unite the field of metaphor studies, trying to reconcile the conceptual/cognition and linguistic/discourse approaches to metaphor (Hampe, 2017b). The dynamic view of metaphor espoused by amongst others Gibbs (2017a) as a way to unify the field of metaphor studies is said to converge on findings and theoretical predictions found in cognition and discourse approaches. The author argues this focus on dynamical models to explain the multi-scale socio-cognitive aspects of metaphor as an emergent phenomenon is not robust enough. Complexity and dynamical systems are merely a modelling technique to deploy theory for empirical testing of hypotheses; a dynamic view of metaphor needs a coherent background theory to base its dynamic modelling of metaphor in action on (Chemero, 2009). I argue that it can be successfully based on the ecological-enactive framework available within the modern paradigm of 4E cognitive science. This framework makes possible explanation of both 'lower' cognition and 'higher' cognition emerging in the interaction of an organism with its environment. In addition, I sketch how recent theoretical insights from ecological-enactivism (Baggs and Chemero, 2018) concerning Gibson's notion of environment apply to the attempted unification of the field of metaphor studies. I close by suggesting how an understanding of metaphor as an ecological affordance of the socio-cultural environment can provide a rich basis for empirical hypotheses within a dynamical science of metaphor.

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OrganisatieFontys
AfdelingAcademy Creative Economy
Gepubliceerd inCulture, Language and Representation Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain, Vol. 2019, Uitgave: 22, Pagina's: 99-116
Datum2019-11-06
TypeArtikel
DOI10.6035/CLR.2019.22.6
10.6035/CLR.2019.22.6
TaalEngels

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