We read and analyzed literature in which animal metaphors are central, such as Honor de Balzacs short story Passion in the Desert and Langdon Smiths poem Evolution. Throughout the course, the overarching theme is that animal metaphors are powerful tools for framing our relationship with the environment and that they can be best understood in the context of humans as evolved animals. Darwins Cathedral. All rights reserved. One way humans do this is by engaging in behaviors that serve, at least in part, to deny or minimize our commonalities with other animals (427). The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought. The value of a particular scientific metaphor, whether it is a verbal or visual representation (such as a molecule depicted as globes with connecting sticks), is determined from whether or not it is consistent with experimental results (Brown 2003). Women are like farm yard animals, We are reminded that its a story within a story when the human female character demands to know what happened next, thus inaugurating the third and final section of the Balzac tale. WebBarnacle (slang) Better a lizard than a wizard Boiling frog Busy beaver C Camel's nose Cougar (slang) Crab mentality Crocodile tears D Dragon king theory E Eye of a needle F Forceville C. Metaphor in pictures and multimodal representation. Undeclared majors along with majors in English, Italian, biology, cognitive science, drama & film, history, womens studies, and environmental studies were enrolled. New Lit Hist. Easterlin N. Loving ourselves best of all: ecocriticism and the adapted mind. The two of them form a sustained and intimate bond until one day the soldier admires an eagle soaring overhead, causing the leopard to growl with what the soldier imagines is jealousy. All of these engage our cognitive abilities. Though a common term in literary studies, we intend animal metaphors to represent our particular approach to evolutionary studies. Lakoff G, Johnson M. Metaphors we live by. Springer Nature. Wright R. The moral animal: why we are the way we are: the new science of evolutionary psychology. Wilson, D.S. The empirical test of a human universal is to show that it occurs in all humans; hence, much of the evidence for universal traits comes from anthropology (Brown 2000). We asked students to begin using their scientific readings as a lens through which to view literature: Explain how two or more of the assigned non-literary readings inform your reading of either Honor de Balzacs Passion in the Desert (1830) or Guy de Maupassants Story of a Farm Girl (1890). But unlike a traditional literature course that would do so by referring only to theories of culture and identity that ignore evolutionary theory, or even treat it as counter to such aims, our course integrates literary study with evolutionary psychology and cognitive science. Possibly also for example of animal for mimicking that behaviour have been based on. Privacy Though our course embraces definitions of metaphor that include non-verbal as well as verbal analogies between different entities, we begin with Glucksbergs (2003) more restrictive definition of metaphor as categorical assertion. When the leopard doesnt strike, we lower our defenses and begin to attach ourselves to the attachment that is forming between the soldier and the leopard. We use Easterlins particular concept of place, which incorporates research in emotion and cognition, to analyze animal metaphors in we use Easterlins particular concept of place, which incorporates research in emotion and cognition, to analyze animal metaphors in Lavinia Curriers 1998 film adaptation (Currier 1998) of Balzacs Passion in the Desert. Pinker (2007) objects to what he considers Lakoffs extremism: People can not only ignore metaphors, but can question and discount them, and analyze which aspects are applicable and which should be ignored (249). http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/int/evolution.html. Craib I. Hogan PC. Team-taught by a specialist of French literature and a scientist whose dual specialization is biology and cognitive science, the course draws on concepts from cognitive science and evolutionary psychology to reframe questions of humananimal identity encountered in imaginative literature as well as everyday life. Human beings have the intelligence to be aware of their own inevitable deaths. Poetic repetition and variation, alliteration, rhythm, and rhyme are just some literary universals that emerged from other adaptations. Some cognitive universals identified by Brown (1991) include metaphor, jokes, classification, empathy, language, magic, myths, narrative, planning, poetry, pretend play, snakes (wariness of), and symbolism. The biggest pedagogic challenge of this course was to find ways to connect with and engage students of many different majors. Metaphors are central to cognition, though we are usually unaware of how much our conceptualizations engage them (Hogan 2003). The better one is at knowing cognitive universals, either explicitly or implicitly, then the better one can be at getting inside other peoples heads. Universals, as a suite of cognitive abilities, are thus the biological basis for a theory of mind. From there, we get tumours that are like tigers, which is a simile; or the full transference to metaphor in, for example, an article with the subtitle, can we identify the tigers from the pussy cats. Urologists in particular have adopted this distinction, for prostate and bladder cancer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 1962. In response to conceptions of the environment as human-less nature, Buell (1999) and others have developed the concept of place, a word that, Easterlin (2004) explains, conjoins perception, cultural mediation, and apparent physical location (11). Translation by David Wills. As students learn to analyze metaphors in literary texts, they continue to learn evolutionary theories of human and non-human animal behavior, emotion and cognition. Fodor J. Modularity of mind. With such a wide range of interests and backgrounds, we created assignments that were meant to serve interests both within the larger context of the course and the specific interests of the environmental studies major. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10616. By the same token, a frequently used metaphor can have the weaker impact of a simile. Psychol Dev Soc. The evocation of lipstick by both sides calls attention to the power of visual metaphor, which pictorially maps features of one thing onto something else. Students learn to analyze ways in which such universals participate in the production and reception of narrative literature and film, whose metaphors can mediate the anxiety we may have about being animals. The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought. Whereas the desert is a near-empty nothingness in the Balzac story, Curriers film makes viewers aware that the desert is a live ecosystem in which, as Easterlin explains, each organism has a position. One may interpret this as a visual metaphor not only for the French invasion of Egypt but also for the fiction that the French soldier attempts to impose on the female leopard. CAS The narrative of mutual romantic love may serve as a cover story for overwhelming trauma, including, perhaps, the trauma of having sexual feelings for an animal. Here, the written account ends in suspension points. This secondary analysis is the process we teach throughout the course. At the same time, the claim that Obama had called Palin a pig may have been reinforced by another sort of frame: that of the crudely aggressive or uppity black man insulting a white woman. Nonetheless, artistic activity, once regarded by most people as purely cultural, and as that which elevates humans above animals (Goldenberg et al. The third assignment asked students to take theory, both scientific and literary, that they had learned and create an experiential understanding of the local environment: Drawing upon Easterlins idea of place, make observations about one or more animals that are part of this particular place where we all regularly meet and work together: the Vassar campus. A final exam was also given that asked for written responses to five questions. An example of a reflex behavior in babies is the sucking reflex. Our ability to make and understand metaphors appears to be an automatic cognitive process, one that likely evolved along with our ability to create and understand language. This treat is reinforcing the behaviour because the dog likes it and will result in him sitting when instructed to do so. Pinker S. The language instinct. There is greater zoomorphy for mammal names than for bird, insect or fish names. DVD. It is more congruent with this kind of metaphor, because Fine Line Features; 1998. Black, M. Models and Metaphors. Because todays culture bombards our students with non-discursive representational forms, its especially important to teach the analysis of such forms (Murray 2009). Let's take a quick look at some of the most popular forms:Absolute Metaphors - These metaphors compare two things that have no obvious connection, in order to make a striking point. Dead Metaphors - Like clichs, these metaphors have lost their punch through over-usage. Extended Metaphors - These are exactly as they sound. Implied Metaphors - These metaphors compare two things without using specific terms. More items Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License ( Terms and Conditions, This affective power of metaphors is consistent with the module model that we automatically process metaphors and that their initial processing is not open to willful alteration. The nomadic culture is, to borrow a phrase from Easterlin (2004, 11), part and parcel of a specific natural setting.. New York: William Morrow; 1993. Annu Rev Psychol. Red herrings, which traditionally pussy cats should like, probably originated from the practice of setting false trails for hunting dogs. New York: Basic Books; 2003. Human universals. Toward that goal, we devised an approach to analyzing literary texts that distinguishes thematic universals from literary universals. Thematic universals are human universals that are engaged thematically by a literary text. He calls her Mignonne, the name of a former, knife-brandishing mistress who was violently jealous. It includes the composite of historical factors that caused the identity of a person. Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that this tendency, called conformity bias, can affect even our perception of the world when we are in a social setting (Berns et al. New York: Basic Books; 2006. Evolution can explain the mechanisms by which we are affectively drawn to or repelled by animals and is behind the cognitive architecture allowing us to represent animals according to the different roles or purposes we assign to them. Such theories also help explain a readers emotional identification with a storys protagonist (Hogan 2003). Applying theories of evolutionary psychology and cognitive science to literary texts, we explored the role of animal metaphors in the making and partaking of stories in the context of a course in environmental studies. We asked students to predict, and justify, which hunting ground they expected to yield more metaphors and to test their prediction by developing an explicit search methodology. We see close-ups of reptiles, insects, and other mammals. New York: Fordham University Press; 2008. Frame systems are organized in terms of values, and how we reason reflects our values, and our values determine our sense of identity. Google Scholar. Divided into modules that introduce works of literature and film in tandem with various theories of evolutionary psychology and cognitive science, the course is structured to begin and end with the problem of defining and representing humans in relation to animals. Most students expected the scientific journalism to use fewer metaphors because they assumed that scientific language would be more objective, i.e., more literal and less figurative. Zoomorphs tend Behav Brain Sci. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0 Nickerson RS. Emotions are far more ancient than cognitive processes (Wilson 2002, 42), and the perception of racial difference is a strong trigger of in-group/out-group emotional responses in people (Hogan 2009). We believe that the concept of animal metaphors can facilitate exchange of knowledge and ideas between the humanities and the natural sciences while helping us live productively with nature and our own human nature. Much may depend upon the biases and frame systems of the listener, and the power of the context to engender strong emotion, as in the case of a political contest. Confirmation bias: a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises. In non-scientific contexts especially, however, metaphor can be used to persuade and manipulate, tapping into positive or negative emotions and networks of associated ideas in the listener, as when a public figure is accused of being a snake in the grass, or the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is dubbed Obamas Katrina.. Because metaphors are processed automatically, without conscious appraisal, they can be used to rapidly communicate, or manipulate. We have an innate capacity to notice the evidence that most supports what we already want to believe (Nickerson 1998). Accessed 6 November 2010. Paradoxically, the evolved use of animal metaphors to fashion a relationship with the environment allows humans to conceptualize themselves as non-animals. Time to assume that health research is fraudulent, Comparative twin study: Access to healthcare, We jumped from planes without parachutes (and lived. This assertion can be analyzed using the ideas of evolutionary psychology such as the association of animals with disgust and mortality, the inclination to sympathize closely with familiar animals like pets, the tendency to form in- and out-groups in dire situations and the concept of fair play. Passion in the desert. Columbus: Ohio State University Press; 2006. It is the statistical composite of selection pressures that caused the design of an adaptation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12052-010-0301-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12052-010-0301-6. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2002. Toward an evolutionary theory of aesthetics, fiction and arts. Our analytic process parallels that of Lakoff (2008) which is based on the neural theory of language. Thus the EEA for one adaptation may be different from that for another. In the same way, place is not a place (in the standard sense) or time. In his work on religion and group selection, Wilson (2002) has shown that such feelings better enable a group to compete with other groups. We investigated how humans are animals and yet use culture to shield themselves from this reality. Yet the film never allows the viewers perception of the leopard or desert to become indistinguishable from the soldiers own constructions. Our minds are loose confederations of parts (Haidt 2006, 22), and though we have many tendencies, different ones can get activated at the same time or at different times. To quote Lakoff and Johnson (1980): Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. (3). Even within the story, the reader is prevented from pretending that the soldiers report is accurate, for the love story itself hinges on the soldier-narrators tendency to create fictions. Human beings are literary animals with an evolved tendency to make and partake in storytelling, and we rely on metaphors to tell one another stories about animals in relation to ourselves. Whether or not analysing invented dialogue between animals gives real psychological insight, people are only too ready to describe others as animals, sadly often with horrific results. Comparing the McCainPalin policies to those of the outgoing presidents, Obama had said: You can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig. One headline the following day read: Obama said McCainPalin proposals are like putting lipstick on a pig. In contrast, another headline announced Obama: Palin is a pig with lipstick, not only rejecting simile but also dispensing with Obamas stated object of comparison (his opponents policies). Evolutionary psychology: a primer. 1995;10:183203. 2001;30:5571. Animals cavorted while humans drove cars that polluted and caused the oceans to rise and the animals to cry. Since fear of death is a human universal and our working assumption is that humans often distance themselves from animals to manage such fear, we propose anxiety about being animals, induced by evolutionary theory, as an underlying preoccupation of the poem. The second assignment was to write an essay. That thematic and literary universals interact and combine to generate a poems meaning can be demonstrated with Langdon Smiths 1906 poem, Evolution that begins: Subsequent stanzas take the I and You through a series of metamorphoses as the poem traces human evolution from amphibians to creatures swinging in jungle trees, to animal-painting cave dwellers, until they reach their present moment dining at Delmonicos. Thematic universals in the poem include attachment (it is a love poem) and collective identity since the I and You figure in an epic tale of all humanity. For instance, some metaphors can tap into the fear of being dominated. volume4,pages 5263 (2011)Cite this article. Instead of asserting humans are animals, literature can allow us to experiment with questions such as: Are we animals? The following are illustrative examples. Thus, poetic meter and the practice of singing or reciting aloud in groups are both literary universals. To address this question, we need to recognize that to say Humans are animals is quite different from saying that rats are rodents or figs are fruits. Accessed 6 November 2010. This reification of metaphor is not surprising given the purported neural basis of the largely unconscious mechanisms for treating metaphors from different kinds of sensory sources, or modalities, as equivalent in the multimodal space of cognitive simulation (Barsalou, 2008). WebAn example of this is when the Germans throw bread around for the victims to scramble and eat and relates the men 's behavior to, "Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes;" (Wiesel 105). To quote Lakoff (2009): We think, mostly unconsciously, in terms of systems of structures called frames. Each frame is a neural circuit, physically in our brains. New et al. We test this hypothesis in our course in a slightly different way. Create an animal metaphors syllabus, complete with readings. After introducing metaphor in relation to selected evolutionary theories of mind, emotion, and behavior, we examine a study that seems to provide initial empirical support for the following hypothesis (Goldenberg et al. Vassar College, Maildrop 422, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12604, USA, You can also search for this author in The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought. The authors point out: Some cultures go to extreme lengths to distance themselves from animals, whereas others seem more at one with nature (Goldenberg et al. Like conformity bias, confirmation bias can work in conjunction with other apparently evolved tendencies, such as prejudice against individuals identified as members of an outgroup. Without invoking Lakoffs notational formalisms, we examine the factors that may discourage people from recognizing their automatic processing of metaphors, primary processes which are as much a part of our evolved psychological features as our ability to analyze metaphors. WebMost animal metaphors for human personality are uncomplimentary, reinforcing the perceived distance between humans and nonhuman animal species. Comparing the statement My lawyer is a shark with My lawyer is like a shark, Glucksberg argues that in the simile form, the word shark refers to the literal predatory fish. 2008;59:61745. Google Scholar. We do this even to explain why literary works themselves are so often about humans and/or animals. During the 2008 presidential race, Caroline Kennedy used simile in the title of her pro-Obama editorial: A President Like My Father. The impact of her message on readers may easily have been: Obama is another John. What are different ways to interpret that question, and what would be their consequences? Whether hunting wild game, It would not constitute an attempt to deny any and all distinctions between humans and non-human species. Linguistically, the identity can be expressed as a categorical assertion: I am a Baptist; I am an American; I am a Republican. (2007) interpreted these experimental results as follows: The results herein implicate a visual monitoring system equipped with ancestrally derived animal-specific selection criteria. Boyd B. As Paris: ditions Kim; 2006. Thus, alliteration may playfully exercise our evolved ability to discern phonemes and respond to patterns (Boyd 2009). When former President Ronald Reagan lay on the operating table just prior to having a bullet removed from his lung, he told the surgeon I hope youre a Republican. The surgeon, a liberal Democrat, replied, Were all Republicans today. From the context, we can deduce that metaphorically, the surgeon was affirming his identity as a healer and member of a civilized society in which political opponents must never become mortal enemies. Theory of mind is the ability of one individual to guess or attribute the mental states of another, and this ability is thought to be essential in human and interspecies communication (Premack and Woodruff 1978). One central concept that we use to help understand human behavior in the context of making and partaking of narrative is the universal. Newborns instinctively suck on a nipple that is placed in their mouth. Readers, in turn, use cognitive universals implicitly to get inside the heads of writers or characters the writer depicts (Zunshine 2006). 2005;58:24553. F. Kennedy. On the other hand, many reporters used simile to characterize a statement Obama made that used the formal structure of metaphor. Both groups have historically been defined by their visible physical characteristics. Brown DE. Perf. In a non-scientific context, the assertion could be construed to mean that human beings are driven by instinct and prone to violence and thus not significantly different from other creatures. Simile . Similes are a form of speech that compares two concepts by using a clear connect word like like or as.Metaphor . It is a simile but doesnt use any connecting words. Implied metaphor . There are many forms of metaphor. Personification . Hyperbole . Allusion. Idiom . Pun . Onomatopoeia. Alliteration. Passion in the Desert. ), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Most, but not all, students write bird.. Goldenberg JL, Pyszczynski T, Greenberg J, Solomon S, Kluck B, Cornwell R. I am not an animal: mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness. Indeed, our focus on animals may be another automatic and evolved module. BMJ Opinion provides comment and opinion written by The BMJ's international community of readers, authors, and editors. These attitudes, the film implies, are environmentally disrespectful. Cognitive universals give writers the scaffolding for guessing what a reader will understand and how the reader will do so. Most animal metaphors for human personality are uncomplimentary, reinforcing the perceived distance between humans and nonhuman animal species. Murray, J. Non-Discursive Rhetoric. Zunshine L. Why we read fiction: theory of mind and the novel. The BMJ Today: Transgender care, stroke care, alcohol industry lobbying, and who was the best health secretary? Haidt J. When members of his regiment finally located him, he was still weeping. To emphasize that literary activity probably grew from faculties we share with other primates, the course presents various aspects of human emotional and social life as part of an animalhuman evolutionary continuum. WebExample #1: The Jaguar (By Ted Hughes) But who runs like the rest past these arrives At a cage where the crowd stands, stares, mesmerized, As a child at a dream, at a dream, at a jaguar hurrying enraged Through prison darkness after the drills of his eyes On a short fierce fuse. Glucksbergs experiments suggest that humans immediately process metaphors. Whether in the form of gossip or fiction, stories engage our social monitoring instincts (Boyd 2009). In the words of Ellen Dissanayake (1996): Human nature consists of evolved innate dispositions or tendencies that cultures then mold, regulate, and elaborate (231). Place begins for each individual with attachments to their first other being, mother, and continues through time with changing social relationships, cultural constructions, and identity. However, one consequence of seeking a higher more meaningful existence is that any reminder of our corporeal condition is threatening (Goldenberg et al. Even though this was a topics course required for the environmental studies major, it was open to students across the curriculum. Tooby J, Cosmides L. Does beauty build adapted minds? The initial processing of metaphors appears to be done by a mental module of the kind described by Fodor (1983): an obligatory, rapid, domain-specific (language) set of fixed neural architecture. 1997; Pinker 1997). We are inclined to care about the life choices other people make and to compare them with our own; to get emotionally caught up in stories of their conundrums; to want to discuss them and, sometimes, to let our passionate involvement drive on a discussion that has exhausted any other rational purpose. Humans use metaphors to explore their relationship with nature. This idea of narrative as extended metaphor is consonant with misattribution theory, which Hogan (2003) uses to explain why we respond emotionally to stories. This is proposed by the authors of an article entitled: I Am Not an Animal: Mortality Salience, Disgust, and the Denial of Human Creatureliness (Goldenberg et al. Yet the film is critical of the imperialist and anthropocentric attitudes that motivated Napoleons invasion of Egypt to begin with, and which the soldier displays in the film. We then have them watch a YouTube video of Snowball, a dancing cockatiel, to emphasize that when it comes to the arts, we humans have not left other species entirely behind. This question, meant to provoke discussion, was put to students on the first day of Animal Metaphors, an intermediate-level course designed for the multidisciplinary environmental studies major at Vassar College. Environmental connections or ecological theory. Once we understand the importance of identity as cultural, it becomes clearer why the equation of humans with animals is threatening, for a major function of culture itself may be to enable humans to differentiate themselves from animals. Lakoff G. The neural theory of metaphor. (2007) proposed that The human attention system evolved to reliably develop certain category-specific selection criteria, including a set designed to differentially monitor animals and humans (16598). Article We humans, and other animals, have a remarkable capacity for denial (Wright 1994). Grizzly Man. Other Humans are metaphorizing animals. The happiness hypothesis. Burgat F. Libert et inquietude de la vie animale. Lakoff proposes that becoming aware of how we metaphorically conceptualize or frame problems, including environmental crises (Lakoff 2009), is crucial to our ability to find appropriate solutions, particularly if the frames promote attitudes of indifference to or autonomy from nature. Within the play-space of fiction, readers can safely experiment with various conceptual blends, feeling fear and sadness for the soldier. WebRelational frame theory (RFT) is a psychological theory of human language, cognition, and behaviour.It was developed originally by Steven C. Hayes of University of Nevada, Reno and has been extended in research, notably by Dermot Barnes-Holmes and colleagues of Ghent University.. Relational frame theory argues that the building block Like innate behaviors in other animals, reflex behaviors in human babies may help them survive. The uses of narrative. Humans have the cognitive ability to make and understand metaphors, and they create animal metaphors in order to cognitively model and represent other agents, including other humans, in our ongoing struggle for existence in a rapidly changing environment. In metaphor form, shark refers to the superordinate category of predatory creatures that is exemplified by the literal shark (95). Lions Gate; 2005. Translated by E. Dowson. Animals and animal metaphors, but not humans, most commonly populate our conception of the environment, according to Easterlin. Hart, K.R., Long, J.H. Our ancestors did not make art and lived in ooze and slime, an image that evokes viscous substances universally considered disgusting because of their potential to contain harmful microorganisms (Haidt et al. 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