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The Roots of Metaphor

Author : Norman Kreitman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429764480
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Metaphor written by Norman Kreitman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this study begins with a review of basic biological functions, stressing the importance to the organism of various kinds of information. The 'biology of information' must consider how the brain reacts to new, as contrasted with expected, inputs; these differences are discussed chiefly in relation to language. In language processing predictability is of prime importance, but to clarify what this entails it is necessary to consider just how our concepts are organized. Personal construct theory throws considerable light on this question, but is less informative about fantasy, which requires separate exploration. The main chapter focuses on the origins and interpretation of metaphor, in which quite disparate concepts are united but which we understand nevertheless. Existing theories of metaphor are unsatisfactory, but personal construct theory again helps resolve the psychological-linguistic issues. Finally, the question is raised as to why a good metaphor produces a response which is recognizably aesthetic in character, and its implications for our aesthetic responses to other art forms are explored.

Rootedness

Author : Christy Wampole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631765X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Rootedness written by Christy Wampole and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roots are good to think with indeed most of us use them as a metaphor every day. A root can signify the hiddenness of our beginnings, or, in its bifurcating structure, the various possibilities in the life of an individual or a collective. This book looks at rootedness as a metaphor for the genealogical origins of people and their attachment to place and how this metaphor transformed so rapidly in twentieth-century Europe. Christy Wampole s case study is France, with its contradictory legacies of Enlightenment universalism, anti-Semitism, and colonialism. At one time, French nationalist rhetoric portrayed the Jews as unrooted and thus unrighteous people. After the two world wars, the root metaphor figured in the new French philosophy (notably Deleuze and Guattari). And recently, Caribbean thinkers in Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique have debated whether their roots were in Africa, France, the Caribbean, or in some pan-national network that could not be identified on a map. Walpole argues that while the metaphor was perhaps once useful in the establishment of communities and identities, that usefulness has expired. The longer we remain attached to the figure of rootedness, the more discord it sows. Giving up on the metaphor of rootedness, Wampole urges, allows us to see at last that we are in fact unbound by the land we inhabit."

Rootedness

Author : Christy Wampole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631779X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Rootedness written by Christy Wampole and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth—and nations—from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root—surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology to the language of exile—developed in twentieth-century Europe. Wampole examines both the philosophical implications of this metaphor and its political evolution. From the root as home to the root as genealogical origin to the root as the past itself, rootedness has survived in part through its ability to subsume other compelling metaphors, such as the foundation, the source, and the seed. With a focus on this concept’s history in France and Germany, Wampole traces its influence in diverse areas such as the search for the mystical origins of words, land worship, and nationalist rhetoric, including the disturbing portrayal of the Jews as an unrooted, and thus unrighteous, people. Exploring the works of Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Celan, and many more, Rootedness is a groundbreaking study of a figure of speech that has had wide-reaching—and at times dire—political and social consequences.

Metaphor and History

Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351505629
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and History written by Robert Nisbet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth-century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution.

Root Metaphor

Author : Stephen Coburn Pepper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Root Metaphor written by Stephen Coburn Pepper and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113947166X
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought written by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and students from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, music and psychology. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in non-verbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.

Metaphors in the History of Psychology

Author : David E. Leary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521421522
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Metaphors in the History of Psychology by : David E. Leary

Download or read book Metaphors in the History of Psychology written by David E. Leary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that psychologists and their predecessors have invariably relied on metaphors in articulation, the contributors to this volume offer a new "key" to understanding a critically important area of human knowledge by specifying the major metaphors.

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.

Requiem of the Human Soul

Author : Jeremy Lent
Publisher : Libros Libertad
ISBN 13 : 0981073506
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Requiem of the Human Soul written by Jeremy Lent and published by Libros Libertad. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666918202
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language by : Marcel Danesi

Download or read book Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language written by Marcel Danesi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-04-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or language? This book attempts to provide an answer by suggesting that the first riddles of humanity, along with the first myths, reveal that language may have emerged as a mode of reflection via metaphor—a mode that involves blending speech forms together to produce complex, abstract cognition.

Metaphor

Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199705313
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor written by Zoltan Kovecses and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Power of Metaphor

Author : Mark Jordan Landau
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN 13 : 9781433815799
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Metaphor written by Mark Jordan Landau and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2014 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Metaphors and Action Schemes

Author : Robert L. Schwarz
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753552
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Metaphors and Action Schemes written by Robert L. Schwarz and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All our abstract ideas are based on metaphors and action schemes. Jean Piaget did voluminous research on how thought develops in children through assimilation of action schemes. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson have done pioneering work on metaphors and action schemes in everyday thinking. This book builds on those foundations, looking at the role played by metaphors and action schemes in the history of ideas. The author begins his argument by taking a critical look at the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present. While he sees metaphor as simply conceiving one thing in terms of another, he points out that this is an inexhaustible process, because the context in which the process takes place is always changing. Change opens up new possibilities of similarity. Thus, the metaphor is an open door into a space of infinite possibilities.

The Metaphor Roots of the Symbol

Author : Harry David Feltenstein (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphor Roots of the Symbol written by Harry David Feltenstein (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Paul K.-K. Cho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476198
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible by : Paul K.-K. Cho

Download or read book Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible written by Paul K.-K. Cho and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the influence of the sea myth at the structural and conceptual foundations of the Hebrew Bible.

The Language of Metaphors

Author : Andrew Goatly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415586382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Metaphors written by Andrew Goatly and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this textbook, Andrew Goatly explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory & functional linguistics, he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations.

Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

Author : Alan Cienki
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004336230
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics by : Alan Cienki

Download or read book Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics written by Alan Cienki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of Alan Cienki’s Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics considers what it means to apply different approaches from within this field to the dynamic, multimodal combination of speech and gesture. The lectures encompass such main paradigms as blending and mental space theory, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, construction and cognitive grammars, image schemas, and mental simulation in relation to semantics. Overall, Alan Cienki shows that taking the usage-based commitment seriously with audio-visual data raises new issues and questions for theoretical models in cognitive linguistics. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013.