Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: This paper eramines how the Lnkoff-Johnson-Turner rheov of cognitive metaphor can be applied to religious language.After a britfdescription of the relarionship benveen religion and metaphor, it focuses on rhe analysis of the saying « you are rhe salr of the eanh ,, (Mt.5:13).The reflecrion reveals thar rhe senrence is a redefinirion through rhe patriarchal Jewish conceptual system » of un old Semiric morher-centered meraphor.A conclusion thar emerges is rhat a meraphor's meaning m q change drasrically rhrough the systemaric reinterpretarion of in signs into a new coherenr cultural conceprualizarion while its ,( experiential basis P, remains universal.
Author: Laurence Emssard
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2138878517