Volume IV Special Issue II February 2024

Name of Author : Dr L Jenniffer

Title of the paper : Cognition, Metaphor and Discourse in Katherine Mansfields Prelude

Abstract: The objective of the paper is to analyse the aspects of cognitive linguistics applied to Katherine Mansfields Prelude based on Ignasi Navarro Ferrandos perspectives on Metaphor analysis in discourse. Human cognitionmind is closely associated with the communicationlanguage. Ferrando claims that the metaphor is the rhetorical strategy of cognition and Katherine Mansfields Prelude has numerous metaphors in the story of Burnell family leading to conceptual-analogical coherences. The title of the short story-Prelude is a metaphor where it portrays the beginning of many new events in lives of the whole family, Linda and Beryl. The discourse creates experience of reality, and the characters here correlate the concrete objects to the abstract thought processes carrying out metaphorical objectification. This paper focuses on linguistic metaphor and visual metaphors providing the cognitive dimensions of several emotions of the characters. The mental representations of the discourse provide the knowledge of syntactic and semantic structures in a shared communication system.

Keywords : Analogy, Concept, Emotion, Rhetoric

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Page Number : 33-35