Metaphor Metonymy And Experientialist Philosophy

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Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy

Author : Verena Haser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110918242
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy written by Verena Haser and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues connected with experientialism and on cognitive approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Particular emphasis is placed on the works of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, but other cognitivists are also taken into consideration. Verena Haser proposes a new approach to the distinction between metaphor and metonymy, which contrasts with familiar cognitivist models, but also builds on some insights gained in cognitivist research. She also offers an account of metaphorical transfer which dispenses with the notion of conceptual metaphors in the sense of Lakoff and Johnson. She argues that conceptual metaphors are not a useful construct for explaining metaphorical transfer, and that the clustering of metaphorical expressions is better accounted for in terms of family resemblances between metaphorical expressions. Another major goal of this work is a reassessment of the relationship between experientialism and traditional Western philosophy (often subsumed under the vague term "objectivism"). This book contrasts with most other critical approaches to experientialism by providing close readings of key passages from the works of Lakoff and Johnson, which enables the author to pinpoint theory-internal inconsistencies and other shortcomings not noted in previous publications. This book will be relevant to students and scholars interested in semantics and cognitive linguistics, and also in psychology and philosophy of language.

Metaphor and Philosophy

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 131775896X
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Philosophy written by Mark Johnson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are startling because of their radical implications for metaphor research and because they require us to rethink some of our most fundamental received notions of meaning, concepts, and reason. Many of the theoretical assumptions that guided earlier generations who worked on metaphor have been undermined by this new research, which has profound implications for philosophy. More specifically, the level of methodological sophistication of empirical studies of metaphor has increased markedly, making possible rigorous, detailed analyses of how metaphors actually structure conceptualization and reasoning. In addition, professionals have learned that metaphor is not merely a linguistic phenomenon but more fundamentally a conceptual and experiential process that structures the world. The articles in this special issue make significant contributions to these advances.

Metaphors We Live By

Author : George Lakoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226470997
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors We Live By written by George Lakoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Metaphor in Focus

Author : Francesca Ervas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867314
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor in Focus written by Francesca Ervas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philosophical guide on metaphor use. Previous research concerning metaphors has focused on either the theoretical-linguistic problems or the uses in specific research fields. Although these domains share some common interests, there has been little cross-communication. The aim of this volume is to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the empirical side of the research on metaphor use, by analysing the role of metaphor over different domains of use. Therefore, while adopting a theoretical-philosophical point of view, the volume also presents the interdisciplinary connections between philosophy and other academic areas such as linguistics, cognitive science, discourse analysis, communication studies, didactics, economics, arts and political science.

Metaphors We Live By

Author : George Lakoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226468006
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors We Live By written by George Lakoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1980-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816657971
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor written by Mark Johnson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "We are," says Mark Johnson, "in the midst of metaphormania." The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in metaphor as a vehicle for exploring the relations between language and thought. While a number of recent books have dealt with metaphor from the standpoints of several disciplines, there is no collection that shows the best of the work that has been done in the field of philosophy. Mark Johnson has brought together essays that define the central issues of the discussion in this field. His introductory essay offers a critical survey of historically influential treatments of figurative language (including those of Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Nietzsche) and sets forth the nature of various issues that have been of interest to philosophers. Thus, it provides a context in which to understand the motivations, influences, and significance of the collected essays. An annotated bibliography serves as a catalog of all relevant literature. Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor provides an entry point into the philosophical exploration of metaphor for students, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, artists, critics, or anyone interested in language and its relation to understanding and experience.

Metaphor and Metaphorology

Author : Miriam Taverniers
Publisher : Academia Press
ISBN 13 : 9789038202846
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Metaphorology written by Miriam Taverniers and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophy In The Flesh

Author : George Lakoff
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465056743
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy In The Flesh written by George Lakoff and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1999-10-08 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the center of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental assumptions-that we can know our own minds by introspection, that most of our thinking about the world is literal, and that reason is disembodied and universal-that are now called into question by well-established results of cognitive science. It has been shown empirically that:Most thought is unconscious. We have no direct conscious access to the mechanisms of thought and language. Our ideas go by too quickly and at too deep a level for us to observe them in any simple way.Abstract concepts are mostly metaphorical. Much of the subject matter of philosopy, such as the nature of time, morality, causation, the mind, and the self, relies heavily on basic metaphors derived from bodily experience. What is literal in our reasoning about such concepts is minimal and conceptually impoverished. All the richness comes from metaphor. For instance, we have two mutually incompatible metaphors for time, both of which represent it as movement through space: in one it is a flow past us and in the other a spatial dimension we move along.Mind is embodied. Thought requires a body-not in the trivial sense that you need a physical brain to think with, but in the profound sense that the very structure of our thoughts comes from the nature of the body. Nearly all of our unconscious metaphors are based on common bodily experiences.Most of the central themes of the Western philosophical tradition are called into question by these findings. The Cartesian person, with a mind wholly separate from the body, does not exist. The Kantian person, capable of moral action according to the dictates of a universal reason, does not exist. The phenomenological person, capable of knowing his or her mind entirely through introspection alone, does not exist. The utilitarian person, the Chomskian person, the poststructuralist person, the computational person, and the person defined by analytic philosopy all do not exist.Then what does?Lakoff and Johnson show that a philosopy responsible to the science of mind offers radically new and detailed understandings of what a person is. After first describing the philosophical stance that must follow from taking cognitive science seriously, they re-examine the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self: then they rethink a host of philosophical traditions, from the classical Greeks through Kantian morality through modern analytic philosopy. They reveal the metaphorical structure underlying each mode of thought and show how the metaphysics of each theory flows from its metaphors. Finally, they take on two major issues of twentieth-century philosopy: how we conceive rationality, and how we conceive language.

Metaphors of Mind

Author : Brad Pasanek
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416883
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors of Mind written by Brad Pasanek and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad Pasanek's unusual work is the written report of a massive digital humanities project that involved searching 18th-century texts for the many ways writers use metaphors to characterize the mind. The book takes a selection of broad metaphorical categories that the author discovered in his digital research - including animals, coinage, metal, rooms, and writing - and examines particular examples within each category. Pasanek also frames the "dictionary" elements of the project with a more theoretical discussion of what he calls "desultory reading," a form of "unsystematic perusal" of writing exemplified in the way we approach dictionaries. Pasanek not only argues that 18th-century thinkers largely employed desultory reading, but also that his work on this very project is itself an instance of this approach. The project succeeds twofold: in treating 18th-century writing as its topic and in exemplifying its approach. Pasanek maintains an accompanying website (https://metaphorized.com) that collects the results of his digital searches.

Metaphor and Its Moorings

Author : M. Elaine Botha
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039104574
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Its Moorings written by M. Elaine Botha and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human knowledge and language reflect the 'metaphorical' nature of the human experiential and conceptual system. The author shows that metaphor and its underlying analogical structure are significant keys to the understanding of the metaphorical nature of reality and cognition and provide a better understanding of the relationship between science and religion. This study builds critically on the insights of Lakoff and Johnson by introducing a new angle to the discussions concerning conceptual metaphor and its basis in human embodiment. In her proposed alternative to the traditional view of knowledge the author argues that the distinction between literal and metaphorical language ought to be revisited and replaced with a view in which the idea of proper analogy and necessary metaphors are acknowledged. The insights gained in this respect are also applied to the changing views concerning theory and observation in scientific theorizing. A case study on the relationship between religion and science in the work of Michael Faraday illustrates that scientific observation is impregnated with theoretical convictions and that metaphors play a decisive role in the models developed to understand reality.

Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising

Author : Paula Pérez Sobrino
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264678
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising written by Paula Pérez Sobrino and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exists in everyone, and it pervades our everyday social interactions. In particular, advertising offers countless opportunities to explore the way in which people think creatively through metaphor and metonymy. The thorough analysis of a corpus of 210 authentic printed advertisements shows the central role of multimodal metaphor, metonymy, and their patterns of interaction, at the heart of advertising campaigns. This book is the first in-depth research monograph to bring together qualitative and quantitative evidence of metaphor-metonymy combinations in real multimodal discourse. It combines detailed case study analyses with corpus-based analysis and psycholinguistic enquiry to provide the reader with a prismatic approach to the topic of figurative language in multimodal advertising. Besides its theoretical contribution to the field of multimodal figurative language, this monograph has a wide number of practical applications due to its focus on advertising and the communicative impact of creative messages on consumers. This book will pave the way for further qualitative and quantitative research on the ways in which figurative language shapes multimodal discourse, and how it relates to our everyday creative thinking.

Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar

Author : Klaus-Uwe Panther
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027223793
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar by : Klaus-Uwe Panther

Download or read book Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar written by Klaus-Uwe Panther and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable extent, the conceptual structure of languages. The present volume goes even beyond this insight to propose that grammar itself is metonymical in nature (Langacker) and that conceptual metonymy and metaphor leave their imprints on lexicogrammatical structure.

Animal Metaphors and the People of Israel in the Book of Jeremiah

Author : Benjamin Foreman
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647532584
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Animal Metaphors and the People of Israel in the Book of Jeremiah written by Benjamin Foreman and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though interest in the use of metaphor in the Hebrew Bible has gained momentum in recent years, there is, to date, no investigation which concentrates exclusively on the animal metaphors in the book of Jeremiah. In this book, the author brings to light this neglected area of study by examining the language and imagery of the animal metaphors for the people of Israel in the book of Jeremiah. The contribution that these metaphors make to the theology of the book is given special attention, and since different interpretations have been given to many of the metaphors in question, the author resolves some of the questions regarding the meaning of these images in his in-depth study. Additionally, scholars have not tended to research metaphors for the nation of Israel and thus this volume draws attention to a particular subject which has largely been overlooked.In chapter one Foreman familiarizes the reader with the major theoretical approaches to metaphor and spells out the approach taken in his investigation. Eighteen metaphors are then thoroughly analyzed in chapters two, three, and four. These metaphors are grouped into three categories, each of which constitutes a chapter: pastoral metaphors, mammal metaphors, and bird metaphors. Chapter five draws the results of the inquiry together. This study reveals how animal metaphors make important theological claims about the nation of Israel and demonstrates that they are essential elements of the message of the book of Jeremiah. Foreman's elucidation of the language and imagery of the animal metaphors for the people of Israel leads to a richer understanding of these metaphors and ultimately contributes to a more precise interpretation of the message of the book of Jeremiah as a whole.

Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

Author : René Dirven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110173734
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast written by René Dirven and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2002 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.

Conceptual Metonymy

Author : Olga Blanco-Carrión
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264384
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Conceptual Metonymy by : Olga Blanco-Carrión

Download or read book Conceptual Metonymy written by Olga Blanco-Carrión and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a unique feature in metonymy literature: the discussion of the structure of a detailed, web-based metonymy database (especially its entry model), and the descriptive criteria to be applied in its completion. The theoretical discussion contributes important challenging insights on several metonymy-related topics such as contingency, source prominence, “complex target”, source-target contrast / asymmetry, conceptual integration, hierarchies, triggers, de-personalization and de-roling, and many others. The case studies deal with the role of metonymy in morphology, monoclausal if only constructions, emotional categories, and iconicity in English and other languages, including one sign language. Beside cognitive linguists, especially metonymy researchers, the book should appeal to researchers in A.I., sign language, rhetoric, lexicography, and communication.

Metaphor and Thought

Author : Andrew Ortony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521405614
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Thought written by Andrew Ortony and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-26 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought.

A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification

Author : Gerard Steen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027239037
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification by : Gerard Steen

Download or read book A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification written by Gerard Steen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of instructions covering one chapter, the method being a development and refinement of the popular MIP procedure presented by the Pragglejaz Group in 2007. The extended version is called MIPVU, as it was developed at VU University Amsterdam. Its application is demonstrated in five case studies addressing metaphor in English news texts, conversations, fiction, and academic texts, and Dutch news texts and conversations. Two methodological chapters follow reporting a series of successful reliability tests and a series of post hoc troubleshooting exercises. The final chapter presents a first empirical analysis of the findings, and shows what this type of methodological attention can mean for research and theory.