Metaphor as a cognitive and discursive foundation: the possible dialogue between Discourse Analysis, Experiential Realism and Complex Systems
Commonly, it is understood that the epistemology of the French Discourse Analysis (AD) is irreconcilable with studies of human cognition. This paper aims to deconstruct this perspective, recovering, therefore, some of the AD canonical texts with the purpose of discussing the potential of a review of its epistemological tradition that can approach the AD of the current studies of cognition. Taking it for granted, we divided the work in four sections, which aims to: (i) demonstrate that the debates about the relationship between language, thought and metaphor are constitutives of the perspective of the subject in AD since its conformation as a field of study; (ii) approach the AD and the Experiential Realism focusing on the similarities between the perspective of metaphor in Gadet and Pêcheux (2010) and Lakoff & Johnson (1985); (iii) approach the perspective of discursive metaphor of that of Complex Systems, summarizing the relationship between metaphor and thought in Lakoff and Johnson (1985) and the emergent view of metaphor in Cameron and Deignam (2009); (iv) corroborate the discourse perspective as supported by Pêcheux (2009) and Orlandi (2005; 2009), the Paveau (2006) perspective on the importance of the Embodied Mind for the discourse studies and the analysis of Hall (2008) of the contributions of the althusserian philosophy to associate the ideology to Complex Systems, we propose a theoretical discussion of the metaphor as a privileged link for the rapprochement between the Discourse Analysis, the Experiential Realism and the Complex Systems. Finally, we emphasize that the discussions presented in this article can be found most developed and depth in Morais (2015), thesis on which we proposed the categories of «Intangible Thougt» and «Emerging Distributed Metaphors ». There, beyond the relevant theoretical approaches to this text, we dialogue about the prospects of distributed cognition and Cognitive Externalism.
Metaphor as a cognitive and discursive foundation: the possible dialogue between Discourse Analysis, Experiential Realism and Complex Systems
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.9292622300810
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Palavras-chave: Metaphor; Discourse Analysis; Experiential Realism; Complex systems.
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Keywords: Metaphor; Discourse Analysis; Experiential Realism; Complex systems.
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Abstract:
Commonly, it is understood that the epistemology of the French Discourse Analysis (AD) is irreconcilable with studies of human cognition. This paper aims to deconstruct this perspective, recovering, therefore, some of the AD canonical texts with the purpose of discussing the potential of a review of its epistemological tradition that can approach the AD of the current studies of cognition. Taking it for granted, we divided the work in four sections, which aims to: (i) demonstrate that the debates about the relationship between language, thought and metaphor are constitutives of the perspective of the subject in AD since its conformation as a field of study; (ii) approach the AD and the Experiential Realism focusing on the similarities between the perspective of metaphor in Gadet and Pêcheux (2010) and Lakoff & Johnson (1985); (iii) approach the perspective of discursive metaphor of that of Complex Systems, summarizing the relationship between metaphor and thought in Lakoff and Johnson (1985) and the emergent view of metaphor in Cameron and Deignam (2009); (iv) corroborate the discourse perspective as supported by Pêcheux (2009) and Orlandi (2005; 2009), the Paveau (2006) perspective on the importance of the Embodied Mind for the discourse studies and the analysis of Hall (2008) of the contributions of the althusserian philosophy to associate the ideology to Complex Systems, we propose a theoretical discussion of the metaphor as a privileged link for the rapprochement between the Discourse Analysis, the Experiential Realism and the Complex Systems. Finally, we emphasize that the discussions presented in this article can be found most developed and depth in Morais (2015), thesis on which we proposed the categories of «Intangible Thougt» and «Emerging Distributed Metaphors ». There, beyond the relevant theoretical approaches to this text, we dialogue about the prospects of distributed cognition and Cognitive Externalism.
- Argus Romero Abreu de Morais
