The Functioning of the CONTAINER Conceptual Metaphor in Doris Lessing’s Children of Violence

This paper is based on the assumption that there is a system to conceptual metaphor and to its conceptualized linguistic expression. Conceptual metaphor is not a matter of arbitrary fixity. Individual basic metaphors and even generic-level metaphors are not isolated. There is a higher unity to metap...

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Published in:Crossroads (Białystok, Poland) no. 3 (3); pp. 35 - 46
Main Author: Monachowicz, Nadzieja
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku 2013
Faculty of Philology at the University of Bialystok
Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok
Subjects:
conceptualizing
container
environment
Literary Texts
metaphor
object
substance
container
environment
metaphor
landlocked
substance
spaces
conceptualizing
house
room
object
ISSN:2300-6250, 2300-6250
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Summary:This paper is based on the assumption that there is a system to conceptual metaphor and to its conceptualized linguistic expression. Conceptual metaphor is not a matter of arbitrary fixity. Individual basic metaphors and even generic-level metaphors are not isolated. There is a higher unity to metaphor that governs not only all basic and generic-level metaphors, but novel metaphors as well. When we understand a scene, including those described in literary texts, we naturally structure it in terms of conceptual mega-metaphors which may structurally unite the patterns of meaning throughout the whole of the text and find expression in various minor novel metaphors. As the subject matter of this analysis I have chosen the series of novels Children of Violence by the famous British writer Doris Lessing (1919-2013), the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 2007.
ISSN:2300-6250
2300-6250
DOI:10.15290/cr.2013.03.04