What is it about?
This article focuses on the LIFE IS A STORY conceptual fractal metaphor which is built up on analogical mappings, mental space connections, and blends. The fractal model of metaphor in biographical narrative, which is assigned to the formula LIFE IS A STORY f (1) + f (2) + f (3) + … + f (n), contains the mental space of the intentional source domain story, which provides a way to structure the understanding of the limiting target domain of the concept life.
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Why is it important?
We claim that fractal metaphors aim at making the conceptual metaphor flexible and dynamic, renewing its ability of self-development and self-perfection, transforming itself into one of the means of changeable conceptualization of reality.
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Fractal analysis together with the procedure of reiteration was chosen as a method with the intention of finding out certain linguistic conditions under which biographical narratives can be read through and filled with fractal models.
Professor Yakiv Bystrov
Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University
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This page is a summary of: Fractal metaphor LIFE IS A STORY in biographical narrative, Topics in Linguistics, December 2014, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/topling-2014-0007.
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