Cognitive metaphor 4700302 148285288 2007-07-31T15:15:13Z 193.145.41.239 {{merge|Conceptual metaphor|date=August 2007}} {{Orphan|date=August 2006}} ==Concrete Understanding== The cognitive [[metaphor]] of a [[website]] is the association of the site concept to an experience outside of a site's environment. It is used to enhance the level of comfort the user experiences using the [[website]] since this association relates the navigational [[schemes]], processes, and informational areas of a site to something familiar. For example, a '''tabbed metaphor''' can be used in a site for organization of information because users can relate the site's organization to that of using a file drawer of tabbed file folders. This relationship between the file drawer containing folders allows a user who is unfamiliar with a website to navigate it comfortably and with less aggrivation. ==Literature and Cognitive Metaphor== "The most recent [[linguistic]] approach to [[literature]] is that of cognitive metaphor, which claims that metaphor is not a mode of language, but a mode of thought. Metaphors project structures from source domains of schematized bodily or enculturated experience into abstract target domains. We conceive the abstract idea of life in terms of our experiences of a journey, a year, or a day. We do not understand [[Robert Frost]]'s "[[Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening]]" to be about a horse-and-wagon journey but about life. We understand [[Emily Dickinson]]'s "[[Because I Could Not Stop for Death]]" as a [[poem]] about the end of the human life span, not a trip in a carriage. This work is redefining the critical notion of [[imagery]]. Perhaps for this reason, cognitive metaphor has significant promise for some kind of rapprochement between [[linguistics]] and [[literary study]]." [http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-fields-lit.cfm] ==Additional Reading== [http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2004/2004_proceedings/Lou___Jorge.pdf Orgizational structure in multiagent systems: metaphorical contributions to a discussion '''See Page 2 Section II'''] [[Category: Cognitive science]]