EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: FROM DARWIN TO DAWKINS
Anna Drogosz
Katedra Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w OlsztynieAbstract
The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of the metaphor EVOLUTIONARY
CHANGE IS A JOURNEY in the text of its original appearance (Charles Darwin’s On the
Origin of Species) and its later developments (texts by Richard Dawkins). An analysis of
selected examples allows a conclusion that EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY is a theoryconstitutive
metaphor for evolutionism. The paper also proposes an extended understanding
of the whole concept of theory-constitutive metaphor.
Keywords:
metaphor in science, evolutionism, journey metaphorReferences
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Instytut Neofilologii, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski, 109–140.
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Linguistics Applied 4, 62–70.
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Metaphors. In: A. Kwiatkowska (ed.). Łódź Studies in Language 26. Text and Minds. Papers
in Cognitive Poetics and Rhetoric. Frankfurt a. Main, Peter Lang, 165–171.
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Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika.
Gould, S.J. (2002). The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge, The Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press.
Johnson, M. (1987). The Body in the Mind. The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and
Reason. Chicago, Chicago University Press.
Knudsen, S. (2003). Scientific Metaphor Going Public. Journal of Pragmatics 35, 1247–1263.
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Press.
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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 533–542.
Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. What Categories Reveal about the
Mind. Chicago – London, The University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, G., Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we Live by. Chicago – London, The University
of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, G., Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh. The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge
to Western Thought. New York, Basic Books.
Ruse, M. (2005). Darwinism and Mechanisms: Metaphor in Science. Studies in History and
Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35, 285–302.
Watson, J.D. (ed.) (2005). Darwin. The Indelible Stamp. Philadelphia – London, Running
Press.
Young, R.M. (1985). Darwin’s Metaphor: Nature’s Place in Victorian Culture. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
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Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
Drogosz, A. (2013). EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: FROM DARWIN TO DAWKINS. Acta Neophilologica, 2(XV), 19–29. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/an/article/view/913
Anna Drogosz
Katedra Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
Katedra Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
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