This article extends axleys recent discussion of the conduit metaphor of communication. Rapport and relationships in clinical interactions. For example, he points out that the expression youll find better ideas than that in the library is a conduit metaphor asserting that ideas are in words, which are on pages, which are in. A case of frame conflict in our language about language in 1979, while lakoffs and johnsons metaphors we live by was published one year later in 1980. It is notable to mention that reddy published his paper the conduit metaphor. Reddy showed, for a single, very significant case, that the locus of metaphor is thought, not language, that metaphor is a. The conduit metaphor has had a powerful influence on how clinicians see their role duchan, 2011. Reddy later declared that the way we speak about communication is like that of a conduit metaphor. A metaphor underlying everyday references to communication, identified in 1979 by michael reddy, an american linguist, reflecting the notions that. Dwelling upon reddy s 1979 concept of conduit metaphor, lakoff and johnson 1980 and. Instead, we suggest drawing on more contemporary approaches. Reddy observes that language about language revolves around the following complex metaphor, which is. Reddy, the conduit metaphor a case of frame conflict in. I should like to respond to professor schons chapter.
A communications model is presented and its elements are critically. In linguistics, the conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions used when. What lies behind schons term frame restructuring, and. Clair university of louisville introduction western communication theory is based on the conduit metaphor. If communication is depicted as message passing, then it follows. In his work on the conduit metaphor, reddy explains that we talk about communication by means of a metaphorical model for communication. The conduit metaphor a case of frame conflict in our language about language michael j reddy i should like to respond to professor schons chapter by replaying his theme several octaves lower. Linguistic conceptions regarding what reddy 1979 calls the conduit metaphor are applied to the teaching and practice of organizational communication. Cultural wisdom, communication theory, and the metaphor of resonance robert n. Judge this article briefly recalls some of the cognitive functions of metaphor. Reddy observes that our lan guage about language is structured roughly by the following com. Reddy s conduit metaphor reddy s chapter on how we conceptualize the concept of communication if only i had the words to express what i feel by metaphor demonstrates that.
In this section, i will discuss the movement aspect of the conduit metaphor and the container aspect of the conduit metaphor in this order. Dominant gesture hand right hand for righthanded gesturers, left for left. Metaphor and the language of futures sciencedirect. The conduit metaphor a case of frame conflict in our language about language. L1l2 emotionality differences lend concreteness to reddy s classic critique of the container metaphor. Words are understood as containers, meanings as objects that can be put into words. A communications model is presented and its elements are critically examined from theoretical and empirica. The contemporary theory of metaphor abstract concepts like time, states, change, causation, and pur pose also turn out to be metaphorical. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to. He speaks of it as if our ideas are formed in our head, manifested through a communication medium, and then grasped, felt, or seen by the receiver of the idea.
Reddy i should like to respond to professor schons. I am working from the second edition of the volume in which reddy s article was published. Emotionality differences between a native and foreign. Cultural wisdom, communication theory, and the metaphor of. Reddy\u2014the conduit metaphor notes reddythe conduit. In my opinion, he has struck exactly the right set of notes. An advantage of discussing the relevance of emotionality differences to the conduit metaphor is that the conduit metaphor and objections to it are a bit abstract. Reddy provides a detailed structure of communication, his examples are single citations not from a computer corpus.
Most health professionals are unaware of the extent to which aspects of language, such as metaphor, influence their practice. Reddy, phd, his proposal of this conceptual metaphor refocused debate within and outside the linguistic community on the importance of metaphorical language. It operates whenever people speak or write as if they insert their mental contents feelings, meanings, thoughts, concepts, etc. Reddy s conduit metaphor can be divided into two parts. This is because metaphors, and the linguisticality of which they are a part, shape medical practice in important ways. Ideas are objects and linguistic expressions containers. The conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions used when discussing communication itself. Communicating with the conduit metaphor the conduit metaphor is the primary expression of linguistic communication in our culture m. This scheme follows the conduit metaphor reddy, 1979. A case of frame conflict in our language about language. Information is transmitted by putting messages into forms, sending them through channels the. I am suggesting, then, that the conduit metaphor is leading us down a technological and social blind alley.
It then goes on to consider features of language which tend to condition ways of approaching the futureven to the point of being considered meta phoric traps. Managerial and organizational communication in terms of. This is the second attempt to compile in one place the results of metaphor research since the publication of reddy sthe conduit metaphor and lakoffand johnsons metaphorswelive by. Reddy, the conduit metaphor a case of frame conflict in our language about language. In the next section we will seesome ways in which this understanding is incomplete.
A case of frame conflict in our language about language michael j. True enough, cognitive linguistics treats metaphor as a central issue in language analysis. What, after all, is really mapped from gem to journal when we say this journal is a gem. The argument is advanced that in everyday discourse and even current management textbooks, organizational communication frequently is explicated in terms of the conduit metaphor. The result is that metaphor that is, crossdomain mapping is absolutely central to ordinary natural language semantics, and that the study of literary metaphor is an extension of the study of everyday. Sensitivity to metaphor can deepen our understanding of healthcare and, arguably, improve its quality. A metaphor underlying everyday references to communication, identified in 1979 by michael reddy, an american linguist, reflecting the.
In this conduit metaphor reddy, 1979, messages are seen as being made up of encapsulated thoughts sent along a pipeline from the lips of a speaker to the ears of a hearer. While a simile is merely a decorative addition to a statement, e. Michael reddy 1979 has summed up this particular view in his description of the conduit metaphor. This list is a compilation taken from published books and papers, student papers at berkeleyand elsewhere, and research seminars. In his seminal article reddy 9 discussed the conduit metaphor s distorting potential in culture and society.
Homage to reddy the contemporary theory that metaphor is primarily conceptual, conventional, and part of the ordinary system of thought and language can be traced to michael reddy s this volume now classic paper, the conduit metaphor, which first appeared in the first edition of this collection. The conduit metaphor the conduit metaphor was studied by reddy 1993 1979, who offered more than one hundred types of expressions in english as examples. It can be argued that all language is itself a metaphor, the conduit metaphor reddy 1979, such that meanings are contained in words and linguistic expressions are containers which are sent to somebody. Metaphor and thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. Reddy, phd, his discovery of this conceptual metaphor refocused. I will claim that there is a strong tendency for japanese to conceptualize word as fluid and to fuse word and meaning. Reddy 19931 was the first to discuss the means through which language is metaphorically conceptualized. The traditional view can be described as following the conduit metaphor reddy, 1979 view in which communication is a process of sending and receiving information, and language and communicative practices have a limited effect on the message, its meaning, and its reception. In linguistics, the conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions used when discussing communication itself metalanguage. A communication model based on the conduit metaphor. Traditionally, informationprocessing models of cognition consist of a sequence of modules.
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