doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.4.423
Cicero’s Metaphor Hypotheses Revisited: An Inter-disciplinary Approach to the Aesthetic Appeal of Novel Metaphors
Zhouyan Qiu
- School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, 200083 China.
Abstract
Metaphor permeates almost everywhere, andnovel metaphors in particular are supposed to be moreaesthetically appealing. Given the lack of a systematic researchon the aesthetics of linguistic forms, this paper aims atinvestigating the factors contributing to novel metaphors’aesthetic appeal. This study takes as a point of departure thegreat Roman rhetorician Marcus Tullius Cicero’s fourhypotheses about the contributing factors to metaphor’saesthetic appeal. These hypotheses prove to be reasonable basedon our wide-ranging study on the relevant researches ofinter-disciplinary interests in such fields as linguistics,psychology, neurology and aesthetics. Vivid images, pleasure incomprehension and meaning inexhaustibility are found to bethe three potential contributing factors. Presumably, thisinter-disciplinary endeavor will shed light on our investigationinto the aesthetics of novel metaphors.
Keywords
- Aesthetic appeal
- Cicero’s hypotheses
- images
- novel metaphors
- pleasure
How to Cite
Zhouyan Qiu, "Cicero’s Metaphor Hypotheses Revisited: An Inter-disciplinary Approach to the Aesthetic Appeal of Novel Metaphors," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 308-311, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.4.423
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