This video lecture is a part of the course 'An Introduction to English Linguistics' at the University of Neuchâtel. This session is about metaphor, metonymy, and prototype theory.
Would you mind explaining me the expression "goodness-of-example ratings" please ? I cannot get the sense of it. I'm just starting my English studies (at almost 36y.o) !! Hope I'll be lucky enough to meet you some day and maybe good enough to work with you ! Thank you so much for your videos !
Are you actually an English / Linguistics teacher? I really appreciate your style of teaching with the videos. Fits perfectly for studying and preparing for the exam. Just wanna say thanks.
@@TuTu-cm5px @Tu Tu Haha, I know that by now. I read multiple articles (and a book) by Martin and cited him several times in my term papers. This was just the uneducated me 4 years ago during my Bachelor's studies :D
Sir, first of all thank you so much for this video, it was extremely helpful. Could you please make a video on Jacque Lacan's "Agency of Letter"? The essay explains how Roman Jakobson's Metaphor and Metonymy, Saussure's Signifier and Signified, and Freud's Displacement and Condensation are all related and work on the same axes.
It would be great if I could, but I'm afraid I'm not much of a Lacanian. I read a biography when I was a student but all I remember is that he liked fast cars and expensive restaurants.
nice video but I think games that are played professionally - like your examples Golf and Tennis - are 'sports'; Chess might be a better example. Also games without losers are usually 'activities' as the idea of a 'contest' seems to be one of the essential features of a game, there are cooperative games - but what the players cooperate against is the game itself, so they can lose (they just all lose together)
Useful video! Thanks! Just a clarification: In the example “John is a lion”, “is” would denote a simile, (John is like a lion). However, to say, “John roared at his dissenters” would denote a metaphorical use of a lion. Similarly, “Argument is war” would be a simile, whereas “Argument as war” would be a metaphor.
