The Structure of Metaphor

The Way the Language of Metaphor Works

Roger M. White (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

1996
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-16811-9 (ISBN)

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This volume provides a philosophical introduction to and analysis of the study of metaphor. By proceeding from the concrete analysis of complex metaphors, White is able to identify a range of features which are incompatible with standard accounts of the way words function in metaphor.

Roger M. White is the author of The Structure of Metaphor: The Way the Language of Metaphor Works, published by Wiley.

Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. Part I: Metaphors as Linguistic Hybrids: 1. The Two Vocabularies of a Metaphor. 2. Bifurcation. 3. Ambiguity of Construal. 4. Metaphors as Sentences. 5. Underdetermination. 6. A Theory of Metaphor. 7. The Phenomena of Metaphor 1: Some Examples of Metaphor. 8. The Phenomena of Metaphor 2: Some Ways of Complicating the Metaphoric Structure. Part II: Some Conclusions: 9. Four Types of Theory of Metaphor. 10. The Impossibility of Metaphorical Sciences. 11. The Ordinary Meaning of the Sentences. Appendix: Metaphorical Prediction. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.4.1996
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	167 x 241 mm
Gewicht	732 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-631-16811-7 / 0631168117
ISBN-13	978-0-631-16811-9 / 9780631168119
Zustand	Neuware