Metaphors Of Our Times
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Semantics And Experience
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Author : Hoyt Alverson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Semantics And Experience written by Hoyt Alverson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Are there universal as well as culturally particular experiences and expressions of "time"? Hoyt Alverson questions the widely held anthropological assumption that temporal expression and experience represent little more than local cultural constructions. Drawing on extensive data from four widely divergent languages and cultures--English, Mandarin, Hindi, and Sesotho--he argues that people everywhere experience time in fundamentally similar ways. Semantics and Experience reveals not only how such expressions vary as a function of ideological and cultural differences but also how, despite these differences, they reveal a basic similarity that points to their origin in a pan-human approach to the construction and cognition of space.
Key Metaphors For History
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Author : Javier Fernández-Sebastián
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-03
Key Metaphors For History written by Javier Fernández-Sebastián and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-03 with History categories.
This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse, the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians, politicians, and journalists to represent time, history, memory, the past, the present, and the future and examines a selection of analytical concepts of a temporal nature, built upon unmistakeably metaphorical foundations, such as modernity, event, process, revolution, crisis, progress, decline, or transition. The analysis of these and other pillars on which modern history has been built, whether as a philosophy of history, as an academic discipline, or as a set of events, will interest graduates and scholars dealing with the historical and social sciences and the humanities in general. Key Metaphors for History offers a broad overview of historiography and historiosophy, from an unfrequented point of view, halfway between conceptual history, theory of history and metaphorology. Moreover, it constitutes a form of self-reflection of the historian on his or her own positionality when researching and writing history.
Metaphors Of Memory
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Author : D. Draaisma
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-12-07
Metaphors Of Memory written by D. Draaisma and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-07 with History categories.
First published in 2000, this book explores the metaphors used by philosophers and psychologists to understand memory over the centuries.
A Psychohistory Of Metaphors
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Author : Brian J. McVeigh
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-04-04
A Psychohistory Of Metaphors written by Brian J. McVeigh and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with Psychology categories.
How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring “meta-framing:” our ever-increasing capability to “step back” from the environment, search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and generate “as if” forms of knowledge and metaphors of location and vision. This book demonstrates how analogizing and abstracting have altered spatio-visual perceptions, expanding our introspective capabilities and allowing us to adapt to changing social circumstances.
The Poetics Of Time
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Author : Anna Plata
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Poetics Of Time written by Anna Plata and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Greek language, Modern categories.
The Power Of Metaphor In The Age Of Electronic Media
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Author : Raymond Gozzi
language : en
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
Release Date : 1999
The Power Of Metaphor In The Age Of Electronic Media written by Raymond Gozzi and has been published by Hampton Press (NJ) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Computers categories.
This work examines the methaphors through which culture comprehends new media, such as cyberspace, the information superhighway, the computer virus, and hot and cool media. It also gives a history of metaphor in oral, writing, print, and electronic media.
Metaphors For God S Time In Science And Religion
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Author : S. Happel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-05-20
Metaphors For God S Time In Science And Religion written by S. Happel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Metaphors for God's Time in Science and Religion examines the exploratory work of metaphors for time in astrophysical cosmology, chaos theory, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. Happel claims that the Christian God is intimately involved at every level of physical and biological science. He compares how scientists and theologians both generate stories, metaphors and symbols about the universe and asks 'who is the God who invents me?
Shipwreck With Spectator
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Author : Hans Blumenberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1997
Shipwreck With Spectator written by Hans Blumenberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Originally published in the same year as his monumental Work on Myth, Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in human culture from ancient Greece to modern times. The sea is one of humanity's oldest metaphors for life, and a sea journey, Blumenberg observes, has often stood for our journey through life. We all know the role that shipwrecks can play in this journey, and at some level we have all played witness to others' wrecks, standing in safety and knowing that there is nothing we can do to help, yet fixed comfortably or uncomfortably in our ambiguous role as spectator. Through Blumenberg's seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of letters, from ancient texts through nineteenth-century reminiscences and modern speeches, we see layer upon layer revealed in the meanings humans have given to these metaphors; and in this way we begin to understand what metaphors can do that more straightforward modes of expression cannot. This edition of Shipwreck with Spectator also includes "Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality", an essay that recounts the evolution of Blumenberg's ideas about metaphorology in the years following his early manifesto "Paradigms for a Metaphorology".
When Rabbits Spill Their Tea
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Author : Jenn Brandel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-24
When Rabbits Spill Their Tea written by Jenn Brandel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-24 with categories.
Imagine... your friend's messy boundaries as a blender with the lid off your heart like an overstuffed closet your attention like a puppy on a leash. Metaphors have the power to capture the complexity of our human experience and distill it down to simple, relatable images. This book offers examples of how metaphors can be effective tools for finding meaning and uncovering insights that help us gain clarity, direction, and a sense of peace. The format of this book is simple and, with breathtaking images to correspond with each metaphor, meditative. Simply flipping through the book, you are bound to find something that resonates, a reminder of how we're all in this together, and the comfort of knowing that through our challenges and pain, we can find wisdom and hope.
Metaphor And Metonymy Across Time And Cultures
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Author : Javier E. Díaz-Vera
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-12-11
Metaphor And Metonymy Across Time And Cultures written by Javier E. Díaz-Vera and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages.