Aspects Of Metaphor

Author : Jaakko Hintikka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401583152

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Aspects of Metaphor by Jaakko Hintikka Pdf

Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked but at the same time most poorly understood concepts in philosophy and literary theory. In recent years, several interesting approaches to metaphor have been presented or outlined. In this volume, authors of some of the most important new approaches re-present their views or illustrate them by means of applications, thus allowing the reader to survey some of the prominent ongoing developments in this field. These authors include Robert Fogelin, Susan Haack, Jaakko Hintikka (with Gabriel Sandu), Bipin Indurkhya and Eva Kittay (with Eric Steinhart). Their stance is in the main constructive rather than critical; but frequent comparisons of different views further facilitate the reader's overview. In the other contributions, metaphor is related to the problems of visual representation (Noël Carroll), to the open class test (Avishai Margalit and Naomi Goldblum) as well as to Wittgenstein's idea of 'a way of life' (E.M. Zemach).

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139444613

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Metaphor in Culture by Zoltán Kövecses Pdf

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kövecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation.

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107071148

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Metaphor Wars by Raymond W. Gibbs Pdf

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. This book explores the critical role that conceptual metaphors play in language, thought, cultural and expressive actions. It evaluates the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

Author : Hanna Pulaczewska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110915938

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Aspects of Metaphor in Physics by Hanna Pulaczewska Pdf

With reference to copious case studies, this book attempts to give a broad and comprehensive view of the multiplicity of forms taken by metaphor in physics. A diachronic presentation of the views hitherto advanced on the role of metaphor in the natural sciences provides an introduction to the crucial issues. By means of a broad definition of metaphor as a lexical, semantic, and conceptual phenomenon, metaphor is identified at various levels of physics discourse: in metatheory and methodology; in the sociology of the origin and evolution of science; in theory and conceptualization, including physics models; in education; and finally in linguistic expression, including terminology. Whereas historians and theoreticians of science reduce the question of metaphor in physics to the question of the role of scientific models, where one area of physics provides concepts and structures for another area, the perspective adopted here is that of cognitive semantics. The study inquires into the way in which concept-formation and terminology in physics avails itself of the metaphoric bent immanent in everyday language, conceptualizing abstract ideas in spatial terms, inanimate things as intelligent, measurable phenomena in terms of the visual. Attention is also given to the way in which metaphoric processes make it possible to integrate new knowledge into old and sometimes obsolete structures rather than eliminating those structures altogether.

Author : Samuel R. Levin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421435763

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The Semantics of Metaphor by Samuel R. Levin Pdf

Originally published in 1977. The Semantics of Metaphor presents a theory for the metaphoric construal of deviant sentences. The theory has two aspects. The first relates to metaphor considered as a productive process of language and describes the mechanisms that operate in its semantic interpretation .This part of the theory is presented in chapters III and IV. The second aspect bears on metaphor considered in the context of poetry and develops a conception of metaphoric truth. This part of the theory is presented in chapters VI and VII. The study is semantic in the sense of dealing with both meaning and truth as these properties pertain to metaphor. Of the remaining chapters, the first isolates certain problems of a pragmatic nature from the central semantic concern, chapter II follows with a survey of recent scholarship on the question of semantic deviance, and chapter V compares the theory expounded in chapters III and IV with three other accounts of metaphor.

Author : Mark Jordan Landau
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433815796

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The Power of Metaphor by Mark Jordan Landau Pdf

This book explores the possibility that metaphor is a cognitive tool that people routinely use to understand abstract concepts (such as morality) in terms of superficially dissimilar concepts that are relatively easier to comprehend (such as cleanliness).

Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199705313

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Metaphor by Zoltan Kovecses Pdf

Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on 'metaphors in discourse' and 'metaphor and emotion' --along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised student exercises, tables, and figures.

Author : Charles Forceville,Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110205152

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Multimodal Metaphor by Charles Forceville,Eduardo Urios-Aparisi Pdf

Metaphor pervades discourse and may govern how we think and act. But most studies only discuss its verbal varieties. This book examines metaphors drawing on combinations of visuals, language, gestures, sound, and music. Investigated texts include ad

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108490870

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Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Zoltán Kövecses Pdf

Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

Author : Wolf Paprotté,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027235213

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The Ubiquity of Metaphor by Wolf Paprotté,René Dirven Pdf

This volume brings together a number of articles representative of the present outlook on the importance of metaphors, and of the work done on metaphors in several domains of (psycho)linguistics. The first part of the volume deals with metaphor and the system of language. The second part offers papers on metaphor and language use. In the third part psychological and psycholinguistic aspects of metaphor are discussed.

Author : Thomas Stanley Frentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Meaning (Psychology)
ISBN : WISC:89105671986

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Some Psychological Aspects of Metaphor by Thomas Stanley Frentz Pdf

Author : George Lakoff,Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226468003

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Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff,Mark Johnson Pdf

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.

Author : Eric Steinhart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401596541

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The Logic of Metaphor by Eric Steinhart Pdf

1. Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work is that it focuses intensely on the logical aspects of metaphors. I stress the role of logic in the generation and int- pretation of metaphors. While I don't presuppose any formal training in logic, some familiarity with philosophical logic (the propositional calculus and the predicate c- culus) is helpful. Since my theory makes great use of the notion of structure, I refer to it as the structural theory of m etaphor (STM). STM is a semant ic theory of m etaphor : if STM is correct, then metaphors are cognitively meaningful and are n- trivially logically linked with truth. I aim to extend possible worlds semantics to handle metaphors. I'll argue that some sentences in natural languages like English have multiple meanings: "Juliet is the sun" has (at least) two meanings: the literal meaning "(Juliet is the sunkIT" and the metaphorical meaning "(Juliet is the sun)MET". Each meaning is a function from (possible) worlds to truth-values. I deny that these functions are identical; I deny that the metaphorical function is necessarily false or necessarily true.

Author : Dennis Tay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271617

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Metaphor in Psychotherapy by Dennis Tay Pdf

This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is increasingly concerned not just with describing metaphors in discourse, but how they could be used more adroitly in purposive ‘real world’ contexts such as psychotherapy. On the other hand, while a growing number of mental health professionals believe that metaphors contribute in some way to the psychotherapy process, their ability and willingness to use metaphors might be compromised by a relative unfamiliarity with the various nuanced aspects of metaphor theory. The present analysis of metaphors in authentic psychotherapeutic talk brings these theoretical aspects to the forefront, and suggests how they can be applied to enhance the use of communication of metaphors in psychotherapy. It should be of interest to metaphor researchers, mental health professionals, and discourse analysts in general.

Author : George Lakoff,Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226470993

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Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff,Mark Johnson Pdf

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.