In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual metaphors are based on our bodily experience. While this is certainly true in many cases of metaphor, the role of the body in metaphor creation can and should be reinterpreted, and, consequently, the body can be seen as just one of the several contexts from which metaphors can emerge (including the situational, discourse, and conceptual-cognitive contexts) - although perhaps the dominant or crucial one.

Kövecses is a leader in CMT, and his argument in this book is more in line with what has been discovered about the nature of human cognition in recent years; namely, that human cognition is grounded in experience in multiple ways - embodiment, in a strict sense, being just one of them (see Barsalou, 2008; Gibbs, 2006; Pecher and Zwaan, 2005). In light of the present work, this is because cognition, including metaphorical cognition, is grounded in not only the body, but also in the situations in which people act and lead their lives, the discourses in which they are engaged at any time in communicating and interacting with each other, and the conceptual knowledge they have accumulated about the world in the course of their experience of it.

在《隐喻从何而来》中，Zoltán Kövecses提出了一个隐喻的基础，它增强并完善了概念隐喻理论，根据这一理论，概念隐喻是基于我们的身体经验。虽然这在许多隐喻案例中肯定是正确的，但身体在隐喻创造中的作用可以也应该被重新解释，因此，身体可以被看作是隐喻产生的几个背景之一（包括情景、话语和概念认知背景）--尽管可能是主导的或关键的一个。

Kövecses是CMT的领军人物，他在本书中的论点更符合近年来人们对人类认知本质的发现；即人类认知以多种方式立足于经验--严格意义上的体现只是其中之一（见Barsalou, 2008; Gibbs, 2006; Pecher and Zwaan, 2005）。从目前的工作来看，这是因为认知，包括隐喻认知，不仅立足于身体，而且立足于人们行动和生活的情境，他们在任何时候参与的交流和互动的话语，以及他们在体验世界的过程中积累的关于世界的概念性知识。