How Long to Read Where Metaphors Come from

How Long Does it Take to Read Where Metaphors Come from?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Where Metaphors Come from by Zoltán Kövecses

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual metaphors are based on our bodily experience. While this is certainly true in many cases of metaphor, the role of the body in metaphor creation can and should be reinterpreted, and, consequently, the body can be seen as just one of the several contexts from which metaphors can emerge (including the situational, discourse, and conceptual-cognitive contexts) - although perhaps the dominant or crucial one. Kövecses is a leader in CMT, and his argument in this book is more in line with what has been discovered about the nature of human cognition in recent years; namely, that human cognition is grounded in experience in multiple ways - embodiment, in a strict sense, being just one of them (see Barsalou, 2008; Gibbs, 2006; Pecher and Zwaan, 2005). In light of the present work, this is because cognition, including metaphorical cognition, is grounded in not only the body, but also in the situations in which people act and lead their lives, the discourses in which they are engaged at any time in communicating and interacting with each other, and the conceptual knowledge they have accumulated about the world in the course of their experience of it.

How long is Where Metaphors Come from?

Where Metaphors Come from by Zoltán Kövecses is 233 pages long, and a total of 58,949 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Where Metaphors Come from Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Where Metaphors Come from aloud.

What Reading Level is Where Metaphors Come from?

Where Metaphors Come from is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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