Dynamics Without a Framework? Towards an Ecological-Enactive Approach to the Dynamical View of Metaphor

John A Machielsen
2019 Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación  
100 multi-scale socio-cognitive aspects of metaphor as an emergent phenomenon is not robust enough. Complexity and dynamical systems are merely a modelling technique to deploy theory for empirical testing of hypotheses; a dynamic view of metaphor needs a coherent background theory to base its dynamic modelling of metaphor in action on (Chemero, 2009) . I argue that it can be successfully based on the ecological-enactive framework available within the modern paradigm of 4E cognitive science.
more » ... framework makes possible explanation of both 'lower' cognition and 'higher' cognition emerging in the interaction of an organism with its environment. In addition, I sketch how recent theoretical insights from ecological-enactivism (Baggs and Chemero 2018, 2019) concerning Gibson's notion of environment (Gibson 1979) apply to the attempted unification of the field of metaphor studies. I close by suggesting how an understanding of metaphor as an ecological affordance of the socio-cultural environment can provide a rich basis for empirical hypotheses within a dynamical science of metaphor.
doi:10.6035/clr.2019.22.6 fatcat:7sgdyycjnrdxna27dknckxbtvi