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Abstract:

In the literature on metaphor there are two notions of metaphoric concepts. One of them is used to explain the meaning of the metaphoric use of language; metaphoric concepts are the meanings of words involved in metaphoric utterances. The other is used to describe the human cognition; metaphoric concepts are concepts that form a part of our conceptual system. These two notions are different in nature, although they have in common the metaphoric mechanism. The aims of this paper will be to show how our comprehension of metaphoric utterances affects our understanding of the view of our conceptions of concepts, and to show that the same restriction about the structure of our conceptions of concepts is operative when we say that there are concepts in our conceptual system whose conceptions have been metaphorically originated.