Dogs Talking and Thinking: Key Textual Metaphor in “Jerry of the Islands” by Jack London

The article focuses on a specific extension of the anthropomorphic conceptual metaphor in the novel “Jerry of the Islands” by Jack London. By applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory and frame semantics to the text, we discover the mappings that serve to recreate the author's view of animal cognition and communication for the reader. We continue to outline the interconnection of extended metaphoric mappings in their relation to the source domains by uniting these concepts under the notion of key textual metaphor. We conclude with the outline of the functioning of the key textual metaphor as a coherence device.