Metaphoric self-awareness in reflexive constructions

Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Birmingham, course: English and Applied Linguistics, language: English, abstract: English speakers use metaphorical constructions to express their Self-Awareness unconsciously all the time, yet we barely think about what underlies these constructions. What does the phrase "find oneself" mean for example? Does a person "find oneself" in the same way one finds a coin on the sidewalk? Dr. Barry Grossman investigates the underlying conceptual commonality of these types of metaphorical phrases. It is the concept of Self-Awareness that these constructions have in common, not simply in reference to a speaker's self-knowledge, but an acute meta-awareness of one's state or situation. Self-Awareness turns out to be an image schema and numerous metaphors are construed and predicated with this as its base. This book combines syntax and semantics, as well as cognitive linguistic theory and corpus linguistic analyses to approach a contentious issue raised in the past by many, but explained sufficiently by few. It studies the cognitive reality of perceptual Self-Awareness as an image schema used to drive metaphoric construal within the reflexive construction.

Author: Barry Grossman
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: 03/28/2019
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9783668891531
ISBN10: 3668891532
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | General
- Science | Cognitive Science

About the Author
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Barry has spent his professional life in rural, northern Japan. He received his Master's Degree in Linguistics and TESL from the University of Colorado, USA, and his Ph.D. in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published papers in areas such as Computer Assisted Language Learning, Multiple Intelligences in English Langauge Teaching (ELT), Mindfulness in ELT, Metaphor and the Reflexive Construction, Metaphors of Self-Awareness, etc. He has presented at conferences all over the world. His love of yoga inspires his research, current research projects include the corpus analysis of yogic and Buddhist texts and the analysis of metaphors of the Self in Yoga and Buddhism. He is currently a professor of English at Hachinohe Gakuin University.

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