Tropical truth(s) : the epistemology of metaphor and other tropes / edited by Armin Burkhardt and Brigitte Nerlich.

The 18 contributions to this volume deal with a variety of 'tropes', such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, euphemism, antonomasia and hyperbole. Using various approaches or paradigms, the authors aim to find an answer to crucial epistemological questions, namely whether and to wha...

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Other Authors: Burkhardt, Armin, Nerlich, Brigitte, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2010.
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