@ARTICLE{Kosecki_Krzysztof_On_2024, author={Kosecki, Krzysztof}, volume={vol. 71}, number={No 3}, pages={379-391}, journal={Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny}, howpublished={online}, year={2024}, publisher={Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN i Uniwersytet Warszawski}, abstract={Since the 17th and 18th centuries, the metaphor of a machine – rooted in exact sciences – has been a dominant form of human perception of reality, including language. The paper argues that cognitive linguistics shows its methodological inadequacy. The paradigm propounds a functional model, based on the biological metaphor of a living organism, as a more adequate tool for the description of language than formal and propositional models, which draw on the metaphor of a machine.}, title={On the meaning-making function of metaphors: language as a machine and as a living organism from the perspective of cognitive linguistics}, type={Artykuł}, URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134160/PDF-MASTER/2024-03-KNEO-01.pdf}, doi={10.24425/kn.2024.152583}, keywords={communication, language, machine, metaphor, organism}, }