From Metaphor To Meaning
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From Metaphor To Meaning
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Author : Pasquale De Marco
language : en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date : 2025-07-11
From Metaphor To Meaning written by Pasquale De Marco and has been published by Pasquale De Marco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
**From Metaphor to Meaning** offers a comprehensive examination of metaphor, exploring its multifaceted nature and profound impact on human language, thought, and culture. This groundbreaking work delves into the cognitive processes that underlie metaphorical thinking, revealing how metaphors shape our problem-solving abilities, decision-making, and even our perception of reality. Moving beyond the realm of linguistics, **From Metaphor to Meaning** investigates the role of metaphor in education, literature, and creative writing. It demonstrates how metaphors can enhance learning, foster critical thinking, and inspire literary masterpieces. The book also explores the social and cultural implications of metaphor, examining how it shapes our cultural narratives, influences political discourse, and drives marketing and advertising campaigns. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, education, literature, and philosophy, **From Metaphor to Meaning** provides a holistic understanding of metaphor. It is an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, writers, and anyone interested in the power of language to shape our world. **From Metaphor to Meaning** is a thought-provoking and accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental aspects of human communication. It offers new insights into the way we think, create, and interact with the world around us. This book is essential reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of language and its profound impact on human experience. **Key Features:** * Explores the cognitive processes that underlie metaphorical thinking * Investigates the role of metaphor in education, literature, and creative writing * Examines the social and cultural implications of metaphor * Draws upon a wide range of disciplines to provide a holistic understanding of metaphor * Written in a clear and engaging style, accessible to scholars and general readers alike If you like this book, write a review!
Metaphor In Context
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Author : Josef Stern
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000-11-08
Metaphor In Context written by Josef Stern and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-08 with Psychology categories.
Josef Stern addresses the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does metaphorical interpretation, in whole or part, fall within its scope? The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, received conceptions of semantics and grammar. Assuming that metaphor cannot be explained by or within semantics, they claim that metaphor has little, if anything, to teach us about semantic theory. In this book Josef Stern challenges these assumptions. He is concerned primarily with the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does metaphorical interpretation, in whole or part, fall within its scope? Specifically, he asks, what (if anything) does a speaker-hearer know as part of her semantic competence when she knows the interpretation of a metaphor? According to Stern, the answer to these questions lies in the systematic context-dependence of metaphorical interpretation. Drawing on a deep analogy between demonstratives, indexicals, and metaphors, Stern develops a formal theory of metaphorical meaning that underlies a speaker's ability to interpret a metaphor. With his semantics, he also addresses a variety of philosophical and linguistic issues raised by metaphor. These include the interpretive structure of complex extended metaphors, the cognitive significance of metaphors and their literal paraphrasability, the pictorial character of metaphors, the role of similarity and exemplification in metaphorical interpretation, metaphor-networks, dead metaphors, the relation of metaphors to other figures, and the dependence of metaphors on literal meanings. Unlike most metaphor theorists, however, who take these problems to be sui generis to metaphor, Stern subsumes them under the same rubric as other semantic facts that hold for nonmetaphorical language.
Philosophical Perspectives On Metaphor
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Author : Mark Johnson
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1981
Philosophical Perspectives On Metaphor written by Mark Johnson and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "We are," says Mark Johnson, "in the midst of metaphormania." The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in metaphor as a vehicle for exploring the relations between language and thought. While a number of recent books have dealt with metaphor from the standpoints of several disciplines, there is no collection that shows the best of the work that has been done in the field of philosophy. Mark Johnson has brought together essays that define the central issues of the discussion in this field. His introductory essay offers a critical survey of historically influential treatments of figurative language (including those of Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Nietzsche) and sets forth the nature of various issues that have been of interest to philosophers. Thus, it provides a context in which to understand the motivations, influences, and significance of the collected essays. An annotated bibliography serves as a catalog of all relevant literature. Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor provides an entry point into the philosophical exploration of metaphor for students, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, artists, critics, or anyone interested in language and its relation to understanding and experience.
The Metaphor Compass
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Author : Marianna Bolognesi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30
The Metaphor Compass written by Marianna Bolognesi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Metaphor Compass: Directions for Metaphor Research in Language, Cognition, Communication, and Creativity provides a roadmap to navigate the recent findings and cutting-edge research conducted around the world on metaphor, focusing on the following four themes: Metaphor and Linguistic Diversity, Metaphor and Cognition, Metaphor and Communication, and Metaphor and Creativity. The research presented in this book employs a variety of empirical methods, ranging from neuroimaging to corpus analyses and from behavioral experimentation to computational modeling. Divided into four parts, it offers an array of pedagogical material including activities at the ends of the chapters to help the reader to consolidate the notions discussed in the chapter. This is a useful resource for students, researchers, and scholars of linguistics, communication, anthropology, psychology, and cognitive science looking to learn about figurative language and creativity.
Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions In A Second Language
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Author : Chris Mengying Xia
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-08
Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions In A Second Language written by Chris Mengying Xia and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Conventional metaphorical expressions are widely used by native speakers in everyday language and have received extensive attention in theoretical semantics and cognitive linguistics. However, how a second language learner can acquire those expressions is left largely unknown. Researchers and language learners face the question: if one has acquired the literal meaning of a word, can they automatically derive the metaphorical meaning? This book provides the answer by placing the question of acquisition of metaphorical expressions in the framework of bilingual lexicon. Assessing whether metaphorical expressions are taken for granted by second language learners, it explores how the metaphorical meaning(s) of a word should be connected in a learner's mental lexicon, and how the cross-linguistic availability of a metaphorical expression could affect the outcome of acquisition of that expression. The book also provides a detailed comparison between metaphorical expressions and other figurative language from both the theoretical and experimental perspectives.
Variations On Metaphor
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Author : Ilaria Rizzato
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-13
Variations On Metaphor written by Ilaria Rizzato and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Metaphor is a fascinating and, at the same time, complex phenomenon. It can be approached from a multitude of perspectives, and the linguistic realizations of metaphors vary not only across languages, but also across text genres, cultures, and time. This book reflects such complexity and variability by gathering a collection of studies that adopt different theoretical views and explore the actual uses of metaphors in different text types (literary, folkloric, journalistic, and scientific) and languages (Hungarian, Chinese, French, English, Italian, Latin, and Ancient Greek). By providing the reader with a view of metaphor and current metaphor research which is both diversified and coherent, this volume will provide insights for cognitive linguists, scholars involved in metaphor studies, and more generally readers interested in linguistic variation.
Revelation
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Author : Richard Swinburne
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1992
Revelation written by Richard Swinburne and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Metaphor Metonymy And Lexicogenesis
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Author : Andrew Goatly
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2024-11-15
Metaphor Metonymy And Lexicogenesis written by Andrew Goatly and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which it is derived; (ii) derivation obscures the figurative origins of this lexis to varying degrees depending on differing processing strategies; (iii) lexicalisation is determined by Relevance (in Sperber and Wilson’s sense) to the needs of a culture or its powerful interest groups, where culture, following Norman Fairclough, is characterised as an ensemble of recognised action/discourse genres. This volume is distinctive in exploring the relations between grammar and metonymy and providing numerous examples of metaphorical and metonymic lexis as it reflects society's changing needs and (contested) ideologies.
Metaphor Studies Theories Methods Approaches And Future Perspectives
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Author : Ilaria Rizzato
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2024-12-12
Metaphor Studies Theories Methods Approaches And Future Perspectives written by Ilaria Rizzato and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-12 with Science categories.
Metaphor has been studied as a linguistic, conceptual, and communicative phenomenon in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, education, political science, media studies, communication science, psychology, and neurosciences. While the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor has dominated the field since the “cognitive turn” in the 1980s, alternatives have been proposed, including the Neural Theory of Metaphor, the Relevance Theory Approach, the Complex Systems Approach, and the Dynamic Systems Approach. Though studies are still often text-based, there is a growing body of research on visual metaphor, multimodal metaphor, and gestural metaphor, as well as experimental research ranging from studies on metaphor processing and comprehension to studies in NLP and machine learning. Metaphor Studies is thus a highly interdisciplinary field that encompasses a myriad of theories, approaches, and methods. In current metaphor research, each of these strands is facing new challenges and offering new venues of cutting-edge research using state-of-the-art technologies. Researchers tend to focus on their own research areas and provide in-depth views within the scope of their own disciplines. Metaphor Studies do not seem to escape this phenomenon, in spite of the large number of disciplines they draw on, ranging from linguistics to psychology to the theory of science. Hence, there seem to be little cooperation and communication across different fields, methods, and approaches, having metaphors and figurative language as their main object of investigation. This Research Topic aims to promote cross-fertilization among the many research areas involved in Metaphor Studies, thus bringing together different methods and perspectives, and offering a comprehensive overview of the possible research scenarios
The Routledge Handbook Of Metaphor And Language
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Author : Elena Semino
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-03
The Routledge Handbook Of Metaphor And Language written by Elena Semino and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Metaphor provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language, and maps out future directions of research and practice in a variety of contexts in this field.