Tropical Truth(s) : : The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes /

Tropical Truth(s) : : The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes / / ed. by Armin Burkhardt, Brigitte Nerlich.

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Tropen sind nicht nur rhetorische Mittel, die in der Dichtung und in der öffentlichen Rede als kreative und/oder persuasive Sprachmittel Verwendung finden. Sie sind auch ein kognitives Instrumentarium, mit dessen Hilfe sich die Menschen die Welt verständlich machen und durch das sich ihr Weltverstän...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Barcelona, Antonio,
Barnden, John A.,
Bazzanella, Carla,
Braungart, Wolfgang,
Brdar, Mario,
Brdar-Szabó, Rita,
Burkhardt, Armin,
Colston, Herbert L.,
Danblon, Emmanuelle,
Domínguez, Pedro José Chamizo,
Holmqvist, Kenneth,
Lee, Mark,
Meyer, Paul Georg,
Morra, Lucia,
Nerlich, Brigitte,
Norrick, Neal R.,
Oosthuizen Mouton, Nicolaas T.,
Płuciennik, Jarosław,
Wallington, Alan M.,
Yamanashi, Masa-aki,
Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia,
HerausgeberIn:
Burkhardt, Armin,
Nerlich, Brigitte,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (427 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Metaphor, Simile and Truth
  • Metaphor, empiricism and truth: A fresh look at seventeenth-century theories of figurative language
  • Metaphor and truth in Rationalism and Romanticism
  • Persuasion: between trope and truth
  • Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth
  • Truth, metaphor and counterfactual meaning
  • ‘Metaphorical’ truth conditions, context, and discourse
  • Metaphorical modes of perception and scanning. A comparative study of Japanese and English
  • Natural Language Processing: Minds, brains, and programmes
  • Pear-shaped and pint-sized: Comparative compounds, similes and truth
  • “Money is ruthlessly finding its own level”: Metaphor and metonymy in verb semantics
  • 2. Metonymy, Synecdoche and Truth
  • Between poetry and economy Metonymy as a semantic principle
  • Metonymy in conceptualization, communication, language, and truth
  • Synecdoche: A trope, a whole trope, and nothing but a trope?
  • 3. Other Tropes and Truth
  • Eironeia urbana
  • Irony, analogy and truth
  • Euphemism and truth
  • Princess Antonomasia and the Truth: Two Types of Metonymic Relations
  • “Mummy, I love you like a thousand ladybirds”: Reflections on the emergence of hyperbolic effects and the truth of hyperboles

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