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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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Metaphor, Eva Feder Kittay
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- 1990
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- Titel
- Metaphor
- Untertitel
- Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Eva Feder Kittay
- Verlag
- Clarendon Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1990
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0198242468
- ISBN13
- 9780198242468
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Kunst & Kultur, Lehrbücher, Literaturwissenschaft, Sonstige Lehrbücher
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- 3,5 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.