「리틀 기딩」에 구현된 동시성의 상대성 은유 분석

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This paper describes cognitive linguistics and the theory of relativity, disclosing that a study of literary work has a place in cognitive metaphor study. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) claim that metaphor is a tool so widely pervaded in everyday that we utilize it automatically and unconsciously with so little effort that we scarcely notice it. Also, metaphor in cognitive linguistics and the theory of relativity changed not only the way of describing particles and movement but also the view point about scientific phenomena. The movement of time, according to the theory of relativity, becomes slower in proportion to the speed of movement, and two events which one perceives simultaneously may seem to perceive successively to others. On the contrary, these metaphysical phenomena shook the cognitive framework of mankind. This paper, from this point of view, aims to study the role of metaphors in Eliot’s Little Gidding. I try to examine cognitive linguistics and the theory of relativity in Little Gidding. This study suggests that creative thinking in consilience raises questions to our basic principles and give them new theories.

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