The Metaphor Criticism Review#week10

Article:
Mikkonen, Kai. The “Narrative is Travel” Metaphor: Between Spatial Sequence and Open Consequence. Oct2007, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p286-305.
Research Question:
According to this artifact, author wants to know how the travel metaphor affects and provides one with the meanings to think through travel narratives (Mikkonen286).
Research Aim:
This article has three aims: 1.to demonstrate the importance of the metaphor of travel in the narrative method; 2. to rethink the traits of travel writing through temporality concepts while developing narrative theory; 3. to extend cognitive-linguistic research in metaphors. (Mikkonen287).
Methodology:
The paper, The “Narrative is Travel” Metaphor: Between Spatial Sequence and Open Consequence, takes the metaphors as an object of study in itself and restorative it from the method which is provide by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. George and Mark state that journey and travel are “structural metaphors” and related to other metaphorically structures (Mikkonen288-289).
Finding:
In this paper, we can find: 1.the cognitive foundations and communicative functions of the “narrative is travel” metaphor that are found on the experience of the movement and the actions of people; 2.the projection of a world that is articulated to the fictional narrative; and 3.the travel narrative to offer people a basic lens for viewing space and time (Mikkonen299- 300).
Limitation:
There are two limitations of the metaphor of travel narrative: 1.the perspective of the approach creating a utopia world and a microcosm; and 2.the idea of the worldview that is a representation of a traveler’s individual concept of time and space (Mikkonen300-301).
Future direction:
According to the author, the metaphor of travel narrative can offer the experience of time and space through the subjective perspective of movement and of perceiving a world (Mikkonen302). This approach can give a better understanding of the identifying traits that can help people know a traveler’s point of view. Therefore, it should be applied to a new area between observation and inner reflection In the near future.