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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, And Rosta wrote:
> Xod:
> > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Robin Turner wrote:
> >
> > > I imagine cognitive linguists would also find it interesting from the
> > > point of metaphor. Lojban combines the explicit metaphor-making of
> > > lujvo (which are not metaphorical in the common sense of the word, but
> > > are in the cogling sense) with an attempt to suppress unmarked metaphor
> > > (which to a mainstream cognitive linguist would be quixotic but
> > > interesting).
> >
> >
> > Can you explain more about what Lojban is doing that seems quixotic to
> > linguists? Thanks!
>
> A central tenet of Cognitive Linguistics is that metaphor is fundamental
> to language -- that everything is metaphor. The classic introduction to
> this is the very accessible book _Metaphors we live by_, by George
> Lakoff and Mark Johnson, though in the last two decades these ideas
> have been greatly extended and refined. Robin is a fully paid up
> card carrying Cognitive Linguist.
What do you mean by metaphor that we are actively suppressing in lojban?
Are you talking about the attitude that attacks picturesque lujvo in favor
of dikyjvo?
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