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Blanca tortuga,
Luna dormida,
¡qué lentamente
caminas!
(from Canción de la luna, Federico García Lorca,
1920)
Here the shape and speed of the moon (target domain)
are compared to the roundness and slowness of the tortoise
(source domain).
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, ...
(from The sorrow of love, William Butler Yeats, 1891)
Here the bright speckled stariness (target domain) of
the sky is compared to white scattered splashes of milk
(source domain).
These are examples of metaphors in the traditonal
sense: They stand apart from ordinary language and were
defined traditionally as “novel or poetic linguistic expression[s]
where one or more words for a concept are used outside their
normal conventional meaning to express a ‘similar’ concept”
(Lakoff, 1993, p. 202).
Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Orientational
Metaphors
In contemporary theory, however, metaphors are not
so much about language as about thought. Metaphor does not
stand apart from everyday language, in which the meaning of
one word or phrase is used to convey some similar idea, as in
the dictionary and poetic examples cited above. According to
George Lakoff in “The contemporary theory of metaphor”
(1993, pp. 203-251), “the locus of metaphor is not in language
at all, but in the way we conceptualize one mental domain in
terms of another” (p. 203). Metaphors in this sense of “cross-
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