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Metaphor

Door David A. Cooper

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#278517
Titel
Metaphor
Auteur
Cooper, David A.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Basil Blackwell
Jaar van uitgave
1986
ISBN10
0631171193
ISBN13
9780631171195
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Aristotelian Society Series. Volume 5.
Samenvatting
What do metaphors mean? Why do we use them so much? Do they have a special kind of truth? These are among the many questions that David Cooper discusses in his wide-ranging study of a subject of growing importance for philosophers and students of language and literature. The author argues that the notion of metaphorical meaning, semantic or pragmatic, is a misguided one and that metaphorical truth is of only limited use in the appraisal of metaphors. Rather the main function of metaphorical talk is a social one: the "cultivation of intimacy" among speakers. Irony, "dead"metaphor, icons and the idea that language is fundamentally metaphorical are among the topics discussed in an account which ranges from Aristotle to the present day, from the analytic philosophy of David... (Lees verder)son to the work of continental writers such as Derrida, Barthes, and Gadamer.
Pagina's
292
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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