Metaphor - a Symbol between Essence and Matter. A New Insight to Human Essence in the Light of Cognitive Linguistics.
Abstract
This paper brings conceptually new approach to a deeper understanding on the symbolism of the human essence, metaphoric language perception, modularity of language and language origin itself. The research presented provides an interactive multilingual associative experiment as an attempt to map the Cognitive Semantic Spaces (CSSES) of the Essential Self in Czech language, collect and compare it to the CSSES of conceptual language view in Russian, English and potentially in other languages.
We attempted to merge cognitive metaphor theory with psycholinguistics and psychoanalysis applying associative experiment methodology on a particular set of Essential Self metaphors. The research has two main goals: the first is to build an Essential Self multilingual symbolic network describing the core of the human existence.
The second is to emphasize the importance of the Essential Self linguistic study in education.