Metaphor and Cognition An Interactionist Approach

Metaphor and Cognition An Interactionist Approach / by B. Indurkhya.

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities. Such metaphors, which have been relegated to the back seat in most of the cognitive science research, are the focus of attention in this study, which addresses the creation of similari...

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Main Author: Indurkhya, B. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1992.
Edition:1st ed. 1992.
Series:Studies in Cognitive Systems, 13
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy of mind.
Semantics.
Language and languages—Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • I The Problem
  • 1 Characterizing Metaphor
  • 2 Enter Similarity-Creating Metaphors
  • 3 Approaches to Similarity-Creating Metaphors
  • 4 Cognition as Interaction
  • II A Theory
  • 5 An Interactionist Approach to Cognition: Informal Overview
  • 6 An Interactionist Approach to Cognition: Formal Concepts
  • 7 An Interaction Theory of Metaphor
  • III The Implications
  • 8 Some Metaphor-Related Issues
  • 9 On Predictive Analogy and Induction
  • 10 On Computational Approaches to Metaphor and Analogy
  • Name Index.

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