Criticisms of cognitive metaphor theory cited by Yu

By and large, Ning Yu's book on metaphors in Chinese is faithful to cognitive metaphor theory. However, he does cite some critics of the theory (as of 1999) and discusses a few of them in chapter 2.8. He rejects them all on the account that they define metaphor differently than Lakoff and Johnson.

The authors that Yu lists as critics of cognitive metaphor theory are:

• Dorothy Holland: "All is metaphor" (1982), a review of Metaphors We Live By
• Earl R. Mac Cormac: A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor (1985)
• Anna Wierzbicka: "Metaphors Linguists Live By" (1986)
• Andrew Ortony: The Cognitive Structure of Emotions (1988), see also these experts
• Jackendoff and Aaron's review of More Than Cool Reason (1991)
• Naomi Quinn: "The cultural basis of metaphor," in James W. Fernandez: Beyond Metaphor (1991)
• Hoyt Alverson: "Metaphor and experience," also in the anthology by Fernandez (1991)
• Bipi Indurkhya: Metaphor and Cognition (1992)
• John M. Kennedy and John Vervaeke: "Metaphor and knowledge atained via the body" (1993)
• Cristina Cacciari and Sam Glucksberg: "Understanding figurative language," in Morton Ann Gernsbacher (ed.): Handbook of Psycholinguistics (1994)
• Gregory Murphy: "On metaphoric representation" (1996) and "Reasons to doubt the present evidence for metaphoric representation" (1997)