A study of metaphor from the cognitive perspective
This paper discusses from the cognitive perspective the three major aspects of metaphor: its prototypicality in the category of comparison; the relationship between a concept and its conceptual factors in the metaphorical concept and its metaphorical expressions and the hierarchical implications among the metaphorical concepts in the source domain and the target domain. Language use is full of metaphors, which is due to the fact that metaphor can be used to solve the problems which people encounter in expressing and understanding concepts. In the sense of human cognition, the main function of metaphor is that it can help people express one concept in terms of another through the embodied experience, and enable them to think and understand.
The article tackles certain problems concerning occupational medicine organization work and methodology of its conceptual apparatus used to characterize individual and populational health of workers, covers suggestions on solving these problems.