Cognitive Metaphor Research Articles

Lingua and culture study research on indirect communication cognitive metaphor

Lingua and culture study research on indirect communication cognitive metaphor

Corpo de Afetos: entre o apego emocional e o movimento dançado

O afeto é experienciado pelo bailarino em um nível energético básico: uma necessidade de respirar – inspirar o mundo no corpo e expirar o corpo no mundo. Neste movimento de afeto, o bailarino experiencia um processo de transformação corporal como necessidade vital. Este estudo confronta a percepção sensório-somática do afeto como força de movimento experienciada pela prática da dança, com o afeto compreendido como vínculo emocional entre indivíduos estudado por um campo da psicologia do desenvolvimento. Atribuindo voz ao conhecimento da dança e usando a teoria de Metáforas Cognitivas de Lakoff e Johnson, procura-se aprofundar a origem do sentido de afeto e compreender como ocorre a sua transferência de sentido entre a dança e a psicologia. Em ambos campos, o afeto revela-se como força de sobrevivência, porém, a dança compreende o afeto no nível pré-pessoal, como força da relação corpo-mundo, enquanto uma parte da psicologia do desenvolvimento entende o afeto no nível de necessidades de um corpo já subjetivado.

Metaphorical representation of the emotional concept of LOVE in W. S. Maugham’s artistic worldview

This article is dedicated to examination of metaphorical nomination of the emotional concept of LOVE in the works of William Somerset Maugham. The novels “Mrs. Craddock”, “The Hero”, “The Theatre” and “Of Human Bondage” served as the material for this research. Emotional component serves as organizing core of the literary work; while metaphor is the means for representation of emotions. It is based on the shift of the existing knowledge on the world onto the emotional sphere of a person. The goal of this study is to describe metaphors used by W. S. Maugham for designation and representation of the concept of LOVE. The research is carried out in the context of cognitive linguistics. Despite a vast number of studies dedicated to cognitive metaphor, it remains relevant as it helps comprehending complicated abstract concepts. Metaphor becomes the means for accessing the emotional concepts. Analysis of metaphorical representation of the emotional concept of LOVE in the works of W. S. Maugham allowed revealing metaphorical models that are realized through cognitive metaphors: love is water, love is fire, love is illness, love is madness, love is pain, love is a person, love is a beast, love is a parasite, love is a construction, love is fetters, love is a valuable thing.

Embracing indigenous metaphors: a new/old way of thinking about sustainability

This paper explores the role of metaphor in cognition, outlining how the machine metaphor came to dominate and the problematic assumptions for culture/nature relationships and the consequences for the environment that underpin this metaphor. It then argues that the machine metaphor needs to be complemented by an animistic metaphor, which embodies and underpins indigenous relationships to nature, using examples from the New Zealand Māori.

Feeling your neighbour: an experimental approach to the polysemy oftundma‘to feel’ in Estonian

ABSTRACTThis paper offers an experimental approach to the polysemy of the Estonian perception verbtundma‘to feel’ from the perspective of theperception➔cognitionmetaphor. First, a sorting task is used to map how native speakers perceive the different senses oftundma‘to feel’. The results show that cognition-related senses oftundmaform the most distinct and coherent group. This set was researched further by means of a second experiment, a conceptual feature rating task. The aim of this task was to assess if the cognition-related meanings oftundmadiffer from other cognition verbs of Estonian (teadma‘to know’,aru saama‘to understand’) in that they are metaphorically linked to physical perception. It was predicted that native speakers use characteristics tied to the physical perception in the conceptualisation of the type of knowledge expressed bytundma. However, native speakers did not rate sentences withtundmaas more physical than sentences with abstract cognition verbs. This result is indicative of the nature of the semantics oftundmabeing more varied than was first thought. It is argued that the semantics oftundmarefer to it being a verb of general proximal perception.

МЕТАФОРИЧЕСКОЕ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЕ КРИЗИСА ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ В НЕМЕЦКОМ ОБЩЕСТВЕННОМ ДИСКУРСЕ, ПОСВЯЩЕННОМ ПОСТСОВЕТСКИМ МИГРАНТАМ В ГЕРМАНИИ

The article concerns the ways of metaphoric representation of the identity crisis in German social discourse on post-Soviet migrants in Germany. In the contemporary West European society, the growth of migration processes and socio-cultural transformations makes the notion of migrants’ identity crisis highly relevant. The problem has acquired particular topicality in Germany during the recent years in terms of the prospects and challenges to successful integration of representatives of different migration streams. This article analyzes cognitive metaphors of the identity crisis among post-Soviet migrants. It studies in detail the historical and legislative preconditions that have led to the formation of this migrant community, as well as the specific features characterizing the development of this crises and how it is experienced within the community. The conclusion is made that the language follow-through and reflection on the migration processes are inevitably accompanied by the emergence and actualization of spatial metaphoric models connected with spatial boundaries and the location and movement of migration subjects within those boundaries. A metaphor is viewed in the framework of cognitive metaphor theory as a universal cognitive mechanism and an integral part of human conceptual and verbal systems involved in the perception and categorization activity. In the process of their unfolding, basic spatial metaphors acquire a well-developed network of corresponding secondary metaphoric nominations. The functioning of participial constructions has a special meaning in the composition of basic spatial metaphors: they emphasize the processual character of migration, the dynamics of migrants’ relocation and the manifestations of the identity crisis in the context of heterogeneous migration society.

Фразеологизмы английского языка как средство репрезентации знаний о физических характеристиках человека

We center on the study of the phraseological units semantics from cognitive positions. In particular, attention is paid to information about person physical characteristics represented by phraseological units of the English language containing somatisms, as well as the names of food, clothing and furniture. As phraseological units representing information about physical characteristics we consider those units which represent information about the properties of the body and/or appearance of the human body. The aim of the study is to identify semantic features of these phraseological units, as well as to consider the cognitive mechanisms of their development. During the study of the given phraseological units semantics, the following semantic groups are distinguished: 1) the structure of the human body; 2) age; 3) appearance; 4) the physical/physiological characteristics of the person. In the course of studying the factual material, it is established that the main mechanisms for the development of the meaning of the studied phraseological units are cognitive metaphor, metonymy and metaphtonymy. It is concluded that when comprehending human physical properties, a reference is made both to the very conceptual field of HUMAN and to other conceptual fields involved in the processes of reinterpretation. These may include the conceptual fields FOOD, CLOTHING, FURNITURE, PLANT, ANIMAL.

Ramowanie a metafora w ujęciu kognitywistycznym – czy mają ze sobą coś wspólnego?

The main topic of this article is to show similarities between framing and cognitive metaphor. At the beginning I will show definition of cognitive metaphor and examples of using this metaphor. Then I will do the same with definition of framing, in the end I will try to show that this two things have a lot of common. Main reason of this article is to show that framing is not only present in media, but that framing is present in our language too, which can have influence on recipients, for example when we are watching news or politicians.

The Romance of Thebes (Roman de Thèbes) by Joan M. Ferrante Robert W. Hanning

 Reviews cognitive activity leads directly to relevant selection. It is not, aer all, rational inferential processes alone that determine emergent structure as understood by blending theory. Nor is metaphor simply a matter of broadening and narrowing. Because relevance theory is historically grounded in reaction to the conduit metaphor of communication and constrained by its reliance on conscious conceptualizations , it needs to embrace more openly the theories of third-generation cognitive linguistics that draw more generally on recent research in the neurosciences , psychology, phenomenology, semiotics, and cognitive metaphor. at said, these reservations should not distract from the important contribution this volume makes to the understanding of relevance theory and its relation to literary interpretation. It shows explicitly what relevance theory shares with other cognitive approaches and how it differs. In respecting the power of literary language as ostensive performance, it invites rather than imposes interpretative strategies that inform the best of literary criticism. M I  C   A M H. F e Romance of ebes (Roman de èbes). Trans. by J M. F and R W. H. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. .  pp. $. ISBN ––––. e Roman de èbes first appeared between  and  and remained popular throughout the next two centuries. It claims to be a translation of Statius’s ebaid but frequently deviates from its source material to create a decidedly medieval milieu. With this in mind, it is particularly welcome that this publication contains not just a new translation of the text, but also a critical introduction to the work’s historical context. Joan M. Ferrante and Robert W. Hanning provide an outline of the poem’s place within the twelh-century literary scene, a comparison between ebaid and èbes, and discussions of the concepts of courtoisie and representations of feudal issues. e analysis of the work’s characters is particularly well done, and special attention is paid to the female characters who are so central yet have frequently been overlooked. e introduction also lists èbes’s extant manuscripts, overviews the modern editions, and provides specificities of the particular manuscript upon which the translation is based: London, British Library, Add. . is late fourteenth-century manuscript was commissioned for Henry Despenser, the Bishop of Norwich, colloquially known as the ‘Fighting Bishop’. A description of Henry, his career, and the conjectures as to his attraction to èbes adds some interesting colour and brings the text to life as a work that really did play an influential role in medieval lives. e list of manuscripts containing èbes is a helpful starting point, but unfortunately the description of their contents is incomplete: for example, Paris, BnF, fr.  is described as containing èbes ‘followed by Roman de Troie, Athis et Prophilias, and Roman d’Alexandre’ (p. ), but actually this manuscript contains over twenty additional texts to which no reference is made. Nevertheless, there is sufficient information for most readers, and those wishing to explore further are provided with a list of suggested further reading. e translation MLR, .,   itself strikes a good balance between faithfulness to the text and a pleasing modern readability. It is a shame that there is still no English translation of èbes that includes the original text in a facing-page arrangement, as, for example, there is with the modern French translations. However, the fact that Ferrante and Hanning have maintained the verse structure of the original text, and that this text was edited in a widely available edition (Roman de èbes, ed. by Francine Mora-Lebrun (Paris: Livre de Poche, )), means that readers wishing to make comparisons will find it relatively easy to cross-reference. Overall, this translation is a welcome addition to the field, and will be particularly valued by students and non-specialists looking for an introduction to èbes’s characters and stories. H-U  B S H La Correspondance d’Émilie Du Châtelet. Ed. by U K and A B.  vols. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Étude du e Siècle. .  pp. (vol. );  pp. (vol. ). €. ISBN –––– (set). is new critical edition of Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence is a scholarly compendium of the highest value. Replacing the carefully edited, but sparsely annotated and partly outdated Besterman edition (Voltaire...

Health-Related Concepts and Cognitive Linguistics

Human behavior is governed by concepts. Concepts are cognitive representations of reality. Cognitive linguistics suggests that there are cognitive models affecting the formation of concepts in human mind, such as cognitive metaphor and a prototype model. We used the example of an ancient procedure – trepanation in order to show the connection between the procedure and the concept of the skull as a container, which is a metaphor. Most important concepts in medical systems are health and disease. There is no agreement about their exact definition, although there have been many studies focusing on that. Based on the previous research, we suggest possible benefits from approaching the disease as a prototype category. In all studies so far there have always been consistencies in rating entities qualifying as a disease which is a feature of a prototype category – membership gradience. Entities perceived as diseases by respondents in studies so far have not been the same, but they share certain features. It is more likely for an entity to be considered a disease if it can lead to death, for example. In our opinion there are common core features determining disease as a cognitive category. Further cross-cultural studies could answer what features an entity needs to have in order to be considered a disease.Stressing such features could improve patients’cooperation when a new disease appears.

Metaforikus névadás

The paper discusses the cognitive mechanics of metaphorical name-giving with a focus on place names, following an overview of cognitive metaphor theory and the questions of metaphorically used proper nouns. In cognitive linguistics, the use of metaphors is a cognitive mechanism that plays a fundamental role in human thought and understanding, and the creation of our social, cultural and psychological reality. A particular form of this also manifests in name-giving, creating a small but influential category of names. The category of place names also influences the application of this name-giving method: it is generally used in more informal names and name types. The creation of such a name requires the speaker to detach themselves from the conventional norms of direct descriptionand metonymic name-giving, and relies on their lingual creativity and ability to detach themselves from dominant name-giving models. However, names in the category can also be divided into subcategories. Beyond the typical common-noun-based metaphorical name-giving, more complex parallels can also be found, resulting in the associations connecting the names of several nearby locations. Place names can also serve as the base of metaphorical name-giving, supporting the complex meaning of these names. Despite the fact that the majority of metaphorical names are available from contemporary data collection, it is obviously a long-standing and ancient method of name-giving, as it is based on a cognitive mechanics that seem to be as old as humanity itself.

In search of identity: trauma and irony in the cognitive light

For many decades Scottish Literature has produced characters that fitted well within the atmosphere of despair and inferiority undergone by the Scottish nation in the course of its history. The question of identity being at its heart, Scottish Literature has revealed a specific feature consisting in the frequent occurrence of traumatized, dual and split personalities. These are protagonists who in the force of Scotland’s history are traumatized and symbolize Scotland’s remarkable tradition of despair and the feeling of inferiority and powerlessness. However, a closer look at the contemporary Scottish female writing permits to take a new angle for exploring identity. Our approach accounts for the role of irony and humor that the characters provide. The fact of incongruity / trauma vs. irony/ creates a basis for insightful explorations of the dual essence of identity in A.L. Kennedy’s and J. Galloway’s writing in the light of such counter-concepts as emotional fulfillment vs. isolation, feminist vs. domestic expectations. Thus, our research within the frames of “Caledonian polysyzygy” aims at showcasing how and in what ways the cognitive study of the ironic component can contribute to the revelation of different aspects of identity crisis and survival. The features of the expression of irony are brought out with the help of cognitive metaphor, hyperbole, comparison, etc. It is argued that irony is based on the author's vision of the world and is characterized by the presence of explicit and hidden meanings which accounts for the clash between the vision and the reality. It is established that irony, a crucial aspect in the works of the mentioned authors, is a multi-layered cognitive and discursive phenomenon that aims to highlight the collision between thinking and reality.

SEMANTIC AND STYLISTIC VARIABILITY OF SEMANTIC DERIVATION PROCESSES IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH POLITICAL VOCABULARY

The article presents a cognitive - discursive analysis of linguocognitive models of semantic derivation in the political worldview on the material of English and Russian derivatives chosen by the method of continuous sampling from the English and American weeklies “The Washington Times”, “The Washington Post”, “The News&Observer”, “The Guardian” and the Russian political newspapers “Argumenty i fakty”, “Komsomol'skaya Pravda”, and “Trudovaya Tyumen'” (the overall number of pages is 3000). Texts of the following genres were used as working material: analytical articles, editorials, news stories, interviews, and news columns. The method of linguocognitive modeling was used alongside linguostylistic and component analyses. The processes of semantic derivation characteristic of political vocabulary, including metaphorical change of meaning, are based on the mechanisms of identity. The cognitive metaphor theory boils down to the thesis that two structures of knowledge interact in the process of metaphorization: the cognitive structure of the “source” and the cognitive structure of the “target”. In the process of metaphorization, some goal areas are structured according to the source sample, i.e. there takes place a “metaphorical projection”. Mass media actively use metaphor to build the worldview in the political sphere. In the sphere of mass information, metaphor is a means of creation of cognitions responding to the social change that take place in society, and providing a figurative interpretation of political reality. The aim of the given article is to reveal the main linguocognitive models of semantic derivation in the dynamic political worldview. As a result of analysis of the key processes of semantic derivation in the English and Russian - language political vocabulary, the author has identified the most common and typical of the human thinking cognitive models, based on natural phenomena and human activity artifacts. A number of specific cognitive models of semantic derivation characterize the mentality and the political situation in Russia and the English - speaking countries.

МНОГОУРОВНЕВЫЙ АНАЛИЗ СМЕШАННОЙ МЕТАФОРЫ КАК ЛИНГВО-КОГНИТИВНОГО ФЕНОМЕНА (на материале английского языка)

The present study is devoted to investigating of mixed metaphor as a complex linguistic-cognitive phenomenon, which is analyzed by the author at various levels of abstraction (so called levels of image schemas, domains, frames, and mental spaces). The main aim of this article is to identify the patterns of mixed metaphor and its subtype malaphor meaning formation, where a malaphor is seen as a random or intentional blending of two idioms / aphorisms / clichés. The problem is solved by means of a multilevel analysis of cognitive metaphor [Kövecses 2017, 2019] adapted for the analysis of mixed metaphor. The examination of the process of the meaning formation of mixed metaphor and malaphor allows us to discover that in a mixed metaphor, conceptual metaphors at all considered levels of abstraction, participating in the formation of the constituents of a mixed metaphor, are present in the final mixed metaphor. That is, there takes place the combination of meanings at the levels of image schemas, domains, frames, and mental spaces. In a malaphor, the conceptual metaphors of the original idioms that are present at the levels of image schemas, domains, and frames are preserved in the final blend. However, a conceptual metaphor at the level of mental spaces of the final malaphor differs from the conceptual metaphors that are located at the same level in the original expressions that make up the malaphor. This indicates that the general meaning of such malaphors is presumably not the sum of the meanings of its components, as is the case with a mixed metaphor, which may be considered as a certain regularity of meaning formation in malaphor.

ГЕНДЕРНЫЙ АСПЕКТ ОБРАЗА АЛТАЯ В ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯХ Г.Д. ГРЕБЕНЩИКОВА

The paper considers gender characteristics of the image of Altai in fiction and publicistic texts by George Grebenstchikoff. The texts under consideration are Grebenstchikoff’s essays Altai Rus’, My Siberia, the fairy tale Khan-Altai in Russian and in English. The paper aims at revealing the relationship between the narrator and the locus of the texts in terms of the category of gender. Imagological characteristics of the image of Altai gender identity in Grebenstchikoff’s texts show the mixture of subjective, emotional, objective, philosophical and analytical narrative traditions in these texts about Altai. Gender identity of the image of Altai is connected to the traditional, patriarchal androcentric worldview, when the way of verbal expression is “controlled by the dominating group”, and the reality of the less influential groups is not represented. The masculine nature of Altai, the Mountain Spirit, is shown in the Altai folklore, which is connected to the embodiment of Altai in the images of White Burkhan and his friend Oyrot. Symbolically, this masculine embodiment of Altai exists in George Grebenstchikoff’s texts as the image of Khan-Altai, the reminiscence to the art and prosaic works of Grigory Choros-Gurkin. This masculine image of Khan-Altai is associated in Grebenstchikoff’s texts with the motifs of running water (a river, a spring) and a song glorifying Altai (a hymn of eternal life). Both the masculine KhanAltai himself as well as Khan-Oirot, the male embodiment of the river (Chulyshmanbogatyr), the shepherd, and the shaman Bakhsa are endowed with a voice, can sing and, thus, participate in the communication with the gods and forces of nature. In selftranslations (My Siberia, Khan-Altai) Grebenstchikoff uses the standard pronoun it while referring to Altai. In the patriarchal, androcentric worldview the masculine image of Khan-Altai is represented with the traditional cognitive metaphors as A MAN IS A WARRIOR, A MAN IS A CREATOR and A MAN IS A SINGER. The narrator in Grebenstchikoff’s texts describes the internal space of Altai semiosphere. Opposite to the “chaos”, strange and dangerous space, this “fairy tale”, “mysterious” semiosphere is separated from the outer world by the line of the Altai Mountains. In his publicistic texts, Grebenstchikoff’s narrator is expressly objective, transferring the folklore metaphor ALTAI – BOGATYR, firstly, with the help of represented speech, and then, with by direct citing from the Altai epic. In the fairy tale Khan-Altai, the narrator is extremely emotional and subjective: he speaks directly to Altai-Bogatyr [Giant Altai], which is related to gaining insight into the spiritual vertical as well as the narrator’s ascending to the female embodiment of Altai – its highest peak, Belukha. The reference to Belukha, the queen of Altai, is made in Grebenstchikoff’s texts with the help of the pronoun ona / Ona [she / She]. The same strategy is used in the self-translations into English: the author uses the pronoun she / She contrary to the rules of the English grammar. Masculine embodiment of Altai, Khan-Altai, is the reminiscent image in Grebenstchikoff’s texts. But the real embodiment of Altai is a strong archaic symbol of the Altai queen, “the queen of Asian mountains”, the Belukha, which creates the spiritual stairs of the world for the narrator and his follow-travelers. The writer follows there the traditions of Russian Romantic montanistics, reconsidered in the context of modernism. The masculine embodiment of the Altai image, Khan-Altai, turns out to be a “reminiscence image” in the reviewed Grebenstchikoff’s journalistic and literary texts. The true embodiment of Altai is the powerful archaic image-symbol of the queen of Altai, the “queen of the Asian mountains” Belukha, who creates for the narrator and his companions the “spiritual vertical” of the world.

REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT GORA (MOUNTAIN) IN THE RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC CULTURE AND ITS ANALOGUES IN THE BULGARIAN AND SERBIAN LINGUISTIC CULTURES

The article presents the comparative analysis of the concept gora 'mountain' in the Russian linguistic culture and its analogues in the Bulgarian and Serbian linguistic cultures. The analysis revealed both similarities and differences in the conceptualization of mountain as a landform in the linguistic cultures under study. The similarities in the structure and semantics of linguistic units that represent the concepts are due to the fact that a part of these fixed phrases are internationalisms that originate from classical literature and Bible. We explain the presence of similar metaphors and symbols by the universal mechanisms of creating cognitive metaphors and symbols. The differences between Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian fixed phrases are based on purely linguistic specifics as well as on the characteristics of nature and landscape of Russia (Russian Plain), Bulgaria and Serbia.

Sounds of Green: How Brand Name Sounds Metaphorically Convey Environmental Friendliness

Conveying the environmental friendliness of a product is both crucial and challenging. One efficient way to overcome this challenge is by using brand names as a way to signal environmental friendliness. Linking research in sound symbolism and metaphor cognition, the current research suggests that silent consonants in brand names (e.g., Etopal), compared to voiced consonants (e.g., Edopal), are more effective in conveying environmental friendliness. A series of four studies conducted online and in the field show that brands with silent consonants are perceived as more environmentally friendly than voiced brand names because silent consonants in brand names convey human characteristics that are metaphorically associated with environmental friendliness (e.g., good-heartedness, humility). Marketing implications for green product branding and directions for future research are discussed.

A diabetes não dói, não se sente, mas está cá dentro!

Em Portugal mais de um quarto da população entre os 60 e os 79 anos tem diabetes mellitus tipo 2. As recomendações terapêuticas exigem autogestão pelos pacientes, pois envolvem mudanças de estilo de vida. Contudo, apenas cerca de 20% dos pacientes são ótimos autogestores. A autogestão está associada a crenças, sendo as metáforas mecanismos que refletem as crenças usadas pelos indivíduos para compreender e agir. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar as metáforas de adultos idosos (≥ 65 anos) diabéticos tipo 2, sobre “o que é a diabetes” (identidade; causa; evolução e consequências), relevante pelas implicações para a prática clínica, pois revela metáforas que poderão influenciar a autogestão. Este estudo qualitativo e exploratório recorre à teoria cognitiva da metáfora, explorando metáforas dos participantes através de entrevistas semiestruturadas. Compreende 17 participantes que relataram 84 metáforas. As entrevistas foram submetidas a análise de conteúdo. Os principais resultados indicam: identidade descrita por “doença que não dói, não se sente, mas está cá dentro”; causas envolvem “não sei como se apanha” e “herdei esta doença”; evolução e consequências associam-se a “lentamente vai dando cabo da pessoa”. Estas metáforas sugerem que os adultos idosos diabéticos tipo 2 vivem a doença como algo “misterioso”, o que poderá dificultar o seu envolvimento na autogestão.

THE CATEGORIES OF GOOD AND BAD IN MODERN BULGARIAN BASED ON THE NOTIONS OF ORDER, ORDERLINESS AND DISORDER, HAHOS

<p>Kategorie DOBRA i ZŁA w języku bułgarskim na podstawie wyobrażeń o ŁADZIE i PORZĄDKU oraz NIEPORZĄDKU i CHAOSIE</p><p>W artykule poddano analizie koncepty DOBRA i ZŁA, odzwierciedlone w systemie leksykalnym języka bułgarskiego, z perspektywy kognitywnej teorii metafory G. Lakoffa i M. Johnsona. Badanie opiera się na założeniu, że koncepty DOBRO i ZŁO należą niewątpliwie do bezpośredniego doświadczenia ludzkiego, ale mimo to podlegają metaforyzacji dzięki faktowi, że nie istnieją obiektywnie, lecz są wynikiem ludzkiego rozumienia świata. Analiza zebranego materiału prowadzi do wniosku, że przedstawione w opracowaniu kognitywne metafory bazują na pojęciach ładu i porządku oraz nieporządku i chaosu w świecie.</p>

Metaphors in textbooks of differential equations

This research is an approach to the study of metaphors in the teaching of differential equations, present in textbooks. The objective is to analyse the cognitive metaphors that facilitate learning in the search for the solution of homogeneous linear differential equations. The methodology used was content analysis applied to a subjective sample of four university texts. The analysis allowed to find that the texts that use linear algebra make it easier the teaching of differential equations, and it is concluded that the metaphors from linear algebra are fundamentals in the teaching of linear differential equations, the basic concept facilitates the learning for the construction of the general solution of linear differential equations.