Tropical truth(s) : the epistemology of metaphor and other tropes

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.
Subjects:
Metaphor.
Figures of speech.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
metaphor.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Figures of speech
Language and languages > Philosophy
Metaphor
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; 1. Metaphor, Simile and Truth; Metaphor, empiricism and truth: A fresh look at seventeenth-century theories of figurative language; Metaphor and truth in Rationalism and Romanticism; Persuasion: between trope and truth; Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth; Truth, metaphor and counterfactual meaning; 'Metaphorical' truth conditions, context, and discourse; Metaphorical modes of perception and scanning. A comparative study of Japanese and English; Natural Language Processing: Minds, brains, and programmes.
  • Pear-shaped and pint-sized: Comparative compounds, similes and truth"Money is ruthlessly finding its own level": Metaphor and metonymy in verb semantics; 2. Metonymy, Synecdoche and Truth; Between poetry and economy Metonymy as a semantic principle; Metonymy in conceptualization, communication, language, and truth; Synecdoche: A trope, a whole trope, and nothing but a trope?; 3. Other Tropes and Truth; Eironeia urbana; Irony, analogy and truth; Euphemism.

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