Title: "THERE IS ONLY A THIN RED LINE BETWEEN THE SANE AND THE MAD": MIND, CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND METAPHOR Interactions between imagination, visual perception and cognition
Abstract:Abstract Abstract Abstract Abstract The present paper considers points of convergence of common metaphors and imagination in three languages: European Portuguese, English and Polish, focusing mostly o...Abstract Abstract Abstract Abstract The present paper considers points of convergence of common metaphors and imagination in three languages: European Portuguese, English and Polish, focusing mostly on interactions among imagination, visual perception and cognition. The analysis is fundamentally based on conceptualisation differences observed in some filmic verbal and non- verbal examples in the three mentioned above languages (Batoreo, 2002). The comparison of different languages figurative solutions corresponding to a given spatial situation or a given filmic scene triggers the ever-lasting problem of metaphor translatability, i.e., if the corresponding text can be 'translated' or, using other strategies, either reproduced or newly created.Read More
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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