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Metaphor - Coggle Diagram
Metaphor
Three types of Metaphor
Orientational, Ontological, and Structural
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Orientational metaphors are particularly popular in sign languages, because they are spatial languages.
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Ontological metaphor allows us to talk about abstract ideas, events, states, emotions and so on.
Ontological metaphors in sign languages are often represented through handling classifiers, which show manipulate objects.
Structural metaphor uses rich and systematic ways of mapping internal patterns of source and targets concepts.
Poetic metaphor
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4 major ways to develop poetic metaphor: Extending, Elaborating, Questioning, Combining.
Overview of Metaphor
Traditional metaphors, represent by Aristotle and Cicero regarded metaphor as intentional misuse of language, so that it is a deviant and decorative way to express our thought which can be rewritten.
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Handshape
Selection of a particular handshape in a sign language poem is sometimes governed by a metaphorical principles.
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