Holizm, poznanie i metafora
Holism, Cognition and Metaphor

Summary/Abstract: The study is to argue for a research framework for analysing the contents of linguistic expressions which is to suggest its holistic character. Each concept representation in a linguistic or mental system depends semantically on every other representation in the system which is a language. Everything we use in a language has meaning. It has meaning because it is either related to our bodily experience (concrete domain) or because it is built on other meaning-bearing elements (abstract domain). Thought then, is the embodiment of concepts from direct and indirect experience. At the same time, thought is imaginative because those concepts that are not directly grounded in bodily experience are created by imaginative processes such as metaphor. So, concepts grow out of either bodily experience or are created in mind through abstract reasoning and are understood in terms of those. Therefore cognition of dreams and emotions is holistic. At this point of research, the implications of holism about the meaning and understanding or expressing of dreams and emotions are explored and supported by empirical evidence

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