Friday, 5 January 2018

The Language of Religion

quote [ Thus, it is my intent to analyze religious thought through the lens of cognitive linguistics; to apply the research and theories of that academic discipline to the language and ideas of religion. In particular, we shall consider how image schemas and conceptual metaphors contribute to our understanding of a specific religious idea; that being, the idea that God is everything, an omnipotent mind which is spread throughout all of existence. ]

Kind of an incomplete take on things, but still an interesting read. This is an avenue I think NLP and machine learning becomes useful because we can feed all our schemas and metaphors into a system capable of extracting the structures we use and gain insight into how the brain processes information. I've got a related reading list for this floating around somewhere. ;)
[SFW] [religion & spirituality] [+4 Interesting]
[by steele]
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0123 said @ 2:00am GMT on 11th January

Maybe you understood the piece better than I.
The author uses the term "cognitive metaphor" dozens of times. It's the lynchpin of the "argument" such as it is. The clear implication is that there are "non-cognitive" metaphors, and that he is drawing some kind of distinction. I don't get it. What is a non- cognitive metaphor? If there are none, why the bafflegab (pace Lakoff).






0123 said @ 2:02am GMT on 11th January

Maybe you understood the piece better than I.
The author uses the term "cognitive metaphor" dozens of times. It's the lynchpin of the "argument". The implication is that there are "non-cognitive" metaphors, and that he is drawing some kind of distinction.
I don't get it.
What is a non- cognitive metaphor? If there are none, why the added verbiage?
I know Lakoff uses the term, but that doesn't justify it.




0123 said @ 2:06am GMT on 11th January

Maybe you understood the piece better than I.
The author uses the term "cognitive metaphor" dozens of times. It's the lynchpin of the "argument". The implication is that there are "non-cognitive" metaphors, and he is drawing some kind of distinction.
I don't get it.
What is a non- cognitive metaphor?
I know Lakoff uses the term, but I don't get it, and the Internet has been no help.






0123 said @ 2:06am GMT on 11th January
Maybe you understood the piece better than I.
The author uses the term "cognitive metaphor" dozens of times. It's the lynchpin of the "argument". The implication is that there are "non-cognitive" metaphors, and he is drawing some kind of distinction.
I don't get it.
What is a non- cognitive metaphor?
I know Lakoff uses the term, but I don't get it, and the Internet has been no help.




0123 said @ 2:09am GMT on 11th January

Maybe you understood the piece better than I.
The author uses the term "cognitive metaphor" dozens of times. It's the lynchpin of the "argument". The implication is that there are "non-cognitive" metaphors, and he is drawing some kind of distinction.
I don't get it.
Were obviously talking about ideas, the whole "cognitive" metaphor seems like jargon.





0123 said @ 2:10am GMT on 11th January
Maybe you understood the piece better than I.
The author uses the term "cognitive metaphor" dozens of times. It's the lynchpin of the "argument". The implication is that there are "non-cognitive" metaphors, and he is drawing some kind of distinction.
I don't get it.
We're obviously talking about ideas, the whole idea of a "cognitive" metaphor seems like jargon.






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0123 said @ 2:00am GMT on 11th January
Maybe you understood the piece better than I.
The author uses the term "cognitive metaphor" dozens of times. It's the lynchpin of the "argument". The implication is that there are "non-cognitive" metaphors, and he is drawing some kind of distinction.
I don't get it.
We're obviously talking about ideas, the whole idea of a "cognitive" metaphor seems like jargon.







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