The Social Use of Metaphor : : Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric / / J. Christopher Crocker, J. David Sapir.
Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1977 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Anatomy of Metaphor
- Chapter 2. The Social Functions of Rhetorical Forms
- Introduction
- Chapter 3. Saying Haya Sayings: Two Categories of Proverb Use
- Chapter 4. The Performance of Ritual Metaphors
- Chapter 5. Carrying the Village: Cuna Political Metaphors
- Chapter 6. My Brother the Parrot
- Chapter 7. The Fabricated Child
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index