Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (pims): A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Bridge Theory and Practice

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Over the past decades, several procedures have been developed to identify metaphors at the lexical level. However, because language is complex, there may not be one superior metaphor identification procedure that applies to all data. Moreover, metaphor identification inevitably involves decisions on linguistic form that may not work equally well with all linguistic frameworks. In this paper, we introduce a Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS) reflected and evoked by linguistic expressions in discourse. The procedure is a prerequisite for a prerequisite for identifying metaphorical meaning that extends over phrases or longer stretches of text other than those defined as lexical units in current metaphor identification procedures and it better reflects the Cognitive Linguistic view that linguistic meaning is equal to complex conceptualizations, embodied, dynamic, and simulation-based.

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