Editing Conceptual metaphor (section)

==Literature==
The Linguistic Society of America has argued that "the most recent [[Linguistics|linguistic]] approach to [[literature]] is that of cognitive metaphor, which claims that metaphor is not a mode of language, but a mode of thought. Metaphors project structures from source domains of schematized bodily or enculturated experience into abstract target domains. We conceive the abstract idea of life in terms of our experiences of a journey, a year, or a day. We do not understand [[Robert Frost]]'s '[[Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening]]' to be about a horse-and-wagon journey but about life. We understand [[Emily Dickinson]]'s '[[Because I could not stop for Death]]' as a [[poem]] about the end of the human life span, not a trip in a carriage. This work is redefining the critical notion of [[Imagery (literature)|imagery]]. Perhaps for this reason, cognitive metaphor has significant promise for some kind of rapprochement between [[linguistics]] and [[literary study]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-fields-lit.cfm|title=LSA: About Linguistics|publisher=Lsadc.org|access-date=2012-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305164901/http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-fields-lit.cfm|archive-date=2012-03-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>