Book contents
- Metaphors in the Mind
- Metaphors in the Mind
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 ‘I Am Trying to Climb Everest in Flip-Flops.’
- 2 ‘Would You Prefer a Pencil or an Antiseptic Wipe?’
- 3 ‘I’m Running on This Soapy Conveyor Belt with People Throwing Wet Sponges at Me.’
- 4 ‘This One Sounds Like A Bell and This One Sounds Like When You’re Dead.’
- 5 ‘I Did Not Know Where I Started and Where I Ended.’
- 6 ‘Those Cookies Tasted of Regret and Rotting Flesh.’
- 7 ‘Things Come Out of My Mouth That Shouldn’t Be There.’
- 8 ‘This Is My Body Which Will Be Given Up for You.’
- 9 ‘Malodorous Blacksmiths and Lazy Livers.’
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
6 - ‘Those Cookies Tasted of Regret and Rotting Flesh.’
Sensory Metaphor and Associated Impairments and Conditions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2019
- Metaphors in the Mind
- Metaphors in the Mind
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 ‘I Am Trying to Climb Everest in Flip-Flops.’
- 2 ‘Would You Prefer a Pencil or an Antiseptic Wipe?’
- 3 ‘I’m Running on This Soapy Conveyor Belt with People Throwing Wet Sponges at Me.’
- 4 ‘This One Sounds Like A Bell and This One Sounds Like When You’re Dead.’
- 5 ‘I Did Not Know Where I Started and Where I Ended.’
- 6 ‘Those Cookies Tasted of Regret and Rotting Flesh.’
- 7 ‘Things Come Out of My Mouth That Shouldn’t Be There.’
- 8 ‘This Is My Body Which Will Be Given Up for You.’
- 9 ‘Malodorous Blacksmiths and Lazy Livers.’
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 focuses on people’s experiences of sensory metaphor, which is a particularly strong form of embodied metaphor. It looks at how sensory impairments affect the ways in which people employ the senses in metaphorical ways, and considers, for example, how blind people make use of understanding in seeing metaphors and how deaf people make use of heeding in hearing metaphors. It also looks at the cross-sensory metaphorical affordances that are offered by sign languages. It then discusses the condition of synaesthesia, which involves the generation of novel cross-sensory associations, and presents work showing how synaesthetes experience cross-sensory metaphor.
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- Metaphors in the MindSources of Variation in Embodied Metaphor, pp. 123 - 149Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019