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METAPHOR
ITS COGNITIVE FORCE AND LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE |
| By: |
Eva Feder Kittay |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£54.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198242468 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198242468 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 January, 1990 |
| Series: |
Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy |
| Pages: |
372 |
| Description: |
The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive philosophical theory which explains the cognitive contribution of metaphor. The argument is illustrated with analysis of metaphors from literature, philosophy, science, and everyday language. |
| Synopsis: |
This book provides a comprehensive philosophical theory explicating the cognitive contribution of metaphor. 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. The book is a detailed revision and refinement of 'the semantic theory of metaphor'. Taking into account pragmatic considerations and recent linguistic and psychological studies, the author forges a new understanding of the relation between metaphoric and literal meaning. She amply illustrates her thesis with sensitive and systematic analyses of metaphors found in literature, philosophy, science, and everyday language. |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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