Tropical Truth(s) (eBook)

The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes

Armin Burkhardt, Brigitte Nerlich (Herausgeber)

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2010
433 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-023021-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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 what extent utterances containing tropes can be said to be true or false.

Armin Burkhardt, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg und Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham.

Autoren

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Armin Burkhardt, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg und Brigitte Nerlich, Universität Nottingham; UK.

Armin Burkhardt, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg und Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham.

Inhalt

Contents 5
Introduction 7
1. Metaphor, Simile and Truth 27
Metaphor, empiricism and truth: A fresh look at seventeenth-century theories of figurative language 29
Metaphor and truth in Rationalism and Romanticism 57
Persuasion: between trope and truth 79
Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth 91
Truth, metaphor and counterfactual meaning 129
‘Metaphorical’ truth conditions, context, and discourse 143
Metaphorical modes of perception and scanning. A comparative study of Japanese and English 163
Natural Language Processing: Minds, brains, and programmes 183
Pear-shaped and pint-sized: Comparative compounds, similes and truth 219
“Money is ruthlessly finding its own level”: Metaphor and metonymy in verb semantics 233
2. Metonymy, Synecdoche and Truth 249
Between poetry and economy Metonymy as a semantic principle 251
Metonymy in conceptualization, communication, language, and truth 277
Synecdoche: A trope, a whole trope, and nothing but a trope? 303
3. Other Tropes and Truth 327
Eironeia urbana 329
Irony, analogy and truth 345
Euphemism and truth 361
Princess Antonomasia and the Truth: Two Types of Metonymic Relations 379
“Mummy, I love you like a thousand ladybirds”: Reflections on the emergence of hyperbolic effects and the truth of hyperboles 389

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2010
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Epistemology • Erkenntnistheorie • Metapher • Metaphor • Tropen • tropes • Truth • Wahrheit
• ISBN-10: 3-11-023021-6 / 3110230216
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-023021-5 / 9783110230215