Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) - Softcover

Kittay, Eva Feder

 
9780198242468: Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0198242468 ISBN 13: 9780198242468
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

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A detailed revision and refinement of the "semantic theory of metaphor," this book provides a comprehensive philosophical theory explicating metaphor's cognitive contribution. According to the author, metaphor effects a transference of meaning, not between two terms, but between two structured domains of content, or "semantic fields." Semantic fields, construed as necessary to a theory of word-meaning, provide the contrastive and affinitive relations that govern a term's literal use. In a metaphoric use, these relations are projected into a second domain which is thereby reordered with significant cognitive effects. Amply illustrated with sensitive and systematic analyses of metaphors found in literature, philosophy, science, and quotidian language, this book forges a new understanding of the relation between metaphoric and literal meaning.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press, USA
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198242468
ISBN 13 
9780198242468
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
372
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