From SALT to SALT: Cognitive Metaphor and Religious Language

Authors

  • Laurence Emssard

Keywords:

cognitive metaphor, religious language, conceptual system, experiential basis

Abstract

This paper examines how the Lakoff-Johnson-Turner theory of cognitive metaphor can be applied to religious language. After a britf description of the relarionship between religion and metaphor, it focuses on the analysis of the saying « you are the salt of the eanh , (Mt. 5:13). The reflection reveals that the sentence is a redefinition through the patriarchal Jewish conceptual system » of an old Semitic mother-centered metaphor. A conclusion that emerges is that a metaphor's meaning m q change drastically through the systematic reinterpretation of in signs into a new coherence cultural conceptualization while its (experiential basis), remains universal.

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