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Metaphors: Figures of the Mind

Author : Z. Radman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401722544
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors: Figures of the Mind written by Z. Radman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself. Rather it is concerned with the argument from metaphor. In other words, it is about what I think we can learn from metaphor and the possible consequences of this lesson for a more adequate understanding, for instance, of our mental processes, the possibilities and limitations of our reasoning, the strictures of propositionality, the cognitive effect of fictional projections and so on. In this sense it is not, strictly speaking, a contribution to metaphorology; instead, it is an attempt to define the place of metaphor in the world of overall human intellectual activity, exemplary thematized here in the span that ranges from problems relating to the articulation of meanings up to general issues of creativity. Most of the aspects discussed, therefore, are examined not so much for the sake of gaining some new knowledge about metaphor (work conducted in the »science of metaphor« is presently so huge that an extra attempt to spell out another theory of metaphor may have an infiatory effect); the basic strategy of this book is to view metaphor within the complex of language usage and language competence, in human thought and action, and, finally, to see in what philosophically relevant way it improves our knowledge of ourselves. Certainly, by adopting this basic strategy we also simultaneously increase our knowledge of metaphors, of their functions and importance.

Metaphors: Figures of the Mind

Author : Zdravko Radman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors: Figures of the Mind written by Zdravko Radman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metaphors in the Mind

Author : Jeannette Littlemore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841656X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors in the Mind written by Jeannette Littlemore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor, including, for example, the shape of one's body, age, gender, physical or linguistic impairments, ideology and religious beliefs. It will appeal to students and researchers in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology

Author : Michael S. Kearns
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813186277
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology by : Michael S. Kearns

Download or read book Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology written by Michael S. Kearns and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curiosity about the human mind—what it is and how it functions—began long before modern psychology. But because the mind and its processes are so elusive, they could be described only by means of metaphor. Michael Kearns, in this prize-winning study, examines the development of metaphors of the mind in psychological writings from Hobbes through William James and in fiction from Defoe through Henry James. Throughout the eighteenth century and even into the early nineteenth, metaphors of the mind as a relatively simple entity, either mechanical or biological, dominated both those engaged in psychological theorizing and novelists ranging from Richardson and Smollett through Dickens and the Brontes. In the nineteenth century, such psychologists as Herbert Spencer and Alexander Bain conceived of the mind as a complex organism quite different from that embodied in earlier thinking, but their figurative language did not keep pace. The result was a tension between theoretical expression and actual discussion of mental phenomena

Metaphors of Memory

Author : D. Draaisma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521650243
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors of Memory written by D. Draaisma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, this book explores the metaphors used by philosophers and psychologists to understand memory over the centuries.

Metaphors of Mind

Author : Brad Pasanek
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416891
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 2015-07-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking introduction to eighteenth-century metaphors of the mind that recasts the grand narrative of the Enlightenment in terms of its tropes and figures. An encyclopedic dictionary along the lines of Voltaire’s classic Dictionnaire Philosophique, Metaphors of Mind provides an in-depth look at the myriad ways in which Enlightenment writers used figures of speech to characterize the mind. Drawn from Brad Pasanek’s massive online archive, http://metaphorized.net, this volume constitutes a veritable treasury of mental metaphorics. Dividing the book into eleven broad metaphorical categories—Animals, Coinage, Court, Empire, Fetters, Impressions, Inhabitants, Metal, Mirror, Rooms, and Writing—Pasanek maps out constellations of metaphors. He frames his collection of literary excerpts in each section with a more descriptive and theoretical discussion of what he calls “desultory reading,” a form of unsystematic perusal of writing frequently employed by Enlightenment thinkers. By surveying the printed past alongside the digital present, the book treats eighteenth-century writing as its topic while essentially exemplifying its rhetorical approach. More than an exercise in quotation, this intellectual history offers illuminating readings of fragmentary literary works and confrontations with neoclassical and contemporary theories of metaphor. The book’s entries complicate received ideas about Locke’s blank slate, question M. H. Abrams’ claims about mirrors and lamps, and chart changing frequencies of metal metaphors in a moment of industrial revolution. The book also responds to current anxieties about reading and the mass digitization of literature, touching on recent discussions of “distant reading,” “shallow reading,” and “surface reading.” Promoting critical and creative anachronism, Metaphors of Mind redefines the notion of an archive in the age of Amazon and Google Books.

Out of My Mind

Author : Sharon M. Draper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416971718
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Out of My Mind written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

Metaphors for the Mind

Author : Colin Murray Turbayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors for the Mind written by Colin Murray Turbayne and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turbayne analyzes the significance of metaphor in human thought by exploring historical traditions of philosophy. Probing into the early philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, Turbayne traces the influence that Platonic metaphors have held for later important philosophers such as Berkeley and Kant. By showing how modern theories of human thought and language (including the substance and attribute theory) arose from the procreation model as presented in Plato's Timaeus, Turbayne makes a contribution to the current philosophical debates concerning relativist/realist. In the discussion, the author restores the model to its original state in which the female and male hemispheres of the mind work as partners to create our world.

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.

Metaphors of Conciousness

Author : Ronald S. Valle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461338026
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors of Conciousness written by Ronald S. Valle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we move into the 1980s, there is an increasing awareness that our civilization is going through a profound cultural transformation. At the heart of this transformation lies what is often called a "paradigm shift"-a dramatic change in the thoughts, perceptions, and values which form a particular vision of reality. The paradigm that is now shifting comprises a large number of ideas and values that have dominated our society for several hundred years; values that have been associated with various streams of Western culture, among them the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, The Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. They include the belief in the scientific method as the only valid approach to knowledge, the split between mind and matter, the view of nature as a mechanical system, the view of life in society as a competitive struggle for survival, and the belief in unlimited material progress to be achieved through economic and technological growth. All these ideas and values are now found to be severely limited and in need of radical revision.

Metaphor in Homer

Author : Andreas T. Zanker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110849188X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor in Homer written by Andreas T. Zanker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Homeric narrator use metaphors of time, speech, and thought to compose and structure the Iliad and Odyssey?

The Spider's Thread

Author : Keith J. Holyoak
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551470
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Spider's Thread written by Keith J. Holyoak and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of thinkers from the humanities—poets, philosophers, and critics—and from the sciences—psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, and computer scientists. He begins each chapter with a poem—by poets including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Du Fu, William Butler Yeats, and Pablo Neruda—and then widens the discussion to broader notions of metaphor and mind. Holyoak uses Whitman's poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to illustrate the process of interpreting a poem, and explains the relevance of two psychological mechanisms, analogy and conceptual combination, to metaphor. He outlines ideas first sketched by Coleridge—who called poetry “the best words in their best order”—and links them to modern research on the interplay between cognition and emotion, controlled and associative thinking, memory and creativity. Building on Emily Dickinson's declaration “the brain is wider than the sky,” Holyoak suggests that the control and default networks in the brain may combine to support creativity. He also considers, among other things, the interplay of sound and meaning in poetry; symbolism in the work of Yeats, Jung, and others; indirect communication in poems; the mixture of active and passive processes in creativity; and whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity. Guided by Holyoak, we can begin to trace the outlines of creativity through the mechanisms of metaphor.

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.

Metaphors in Mind

Author : James Lawley
Publisher : Crown House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780953875108
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors in Mind written by James Lawley and published by Crown House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing how to give individuals an opportunity to discover how their symbolic perceptions are organized, what needs to happen for these to change, and how they can develop as a result, this text includes three client transcripts.

The Poetics of Mind

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521429924
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Mind written by Raymond W. Gibbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold new work, Ray Gibbs demonstrates that human cognition is deeply poetic and that figurative imagination constitutes the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live.

Metaphor Wars

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107071143
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor Wars written by Raymond W. Gibbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Deviate

Author : Beau Lotto
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316300179
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Deviate written by Beau Lotto and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world, and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what we do, much less how. By revealing the startling truths about the brain and its perceptions, Beau Lotto shows that the next big innovation is not a new technology: it is a new way of seeing. In his first major book, Lotto draws on over two decades of pioneering research to explain that our brain didn't evolve to see the world accurately. It can't! Visually stunning, with entertaining illustrations and optical illusions throughout, and with clear and comprehensive explanations of the science behind how our perceptions operate, Deviate will revolutionize the way you see yourself, others and the world. With this new understanding of how the brain functions, Deviate is not just an illuminating account of the neuroscience of thought, behavior, and creativity: it is a call to action, enlisting readers in their own journey of self-discovery.