Metaphor and the Logic of Language Use
Series: Language, Media & Education Studies
Publisher: Legas
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780921252764
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplies; Linguistics; Literary Criticism; Metaphor; Semantics; Semiotics; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Language
First sentence: Aristotle (1967:60, 1459) considered it "by far the most important" of all verbal devices.
Description: The study of metaphor is as old as Aristotle, the philosopher who coined the term. And while the amount of academic writing on this topic has reached mind-boggling proportions today, very few frameworks for understanding its interior functioning and its cognitive nature are currently being used by scholars in a consistent fashion. This in-depth study by Alan Bailin provides one framework that will, in my view, go a long way towards systematizing the study of this elusive phenomenon.--Marcel Danesi, Editor of Semiotica
Table of contents: title: 1. Theoretical Preliminaries; title: 2. Fact and Fiction; title: 3. Metaphorical Extension; title: 4. Metaphor and Denotation; title: 5. Metaphor and Connotation; title: 6. The Metaphorical Process; title: 7. Full Circle; title: 8. References; title: 9. Index