Conceptualizing Metaphors
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics; Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780203008218
Subjects: Peirce, Charles S.; Metaphor; Marginalia
Description: This book presents the thought of Charles S. Peirce and its relevancy to linguistics - in particular to semiotics, or the study of signs.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Half Title: Conceptualizing Metaphors; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The theoretical framework of the forsaken ideas; 2 The categories, the ground and the silent effects; 3 Unlimited semiosis and heteroglossia; 4 The living mind and the effete mind; 5 The iceberg and the crystal mind; 6 The missing notion of subjectivity in Charles Peirce's philosophy; 7 The unpredictable past; 8 The quiet discourse; 9 One-man-tango; 10 How is meaning possible?; Appendix; References; Index.