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Multi-disciplinary studies of the creation of
In this seminal work, Paul Ricoeur, a leading figure in European structuralist
and post'structuraiist controversies, brings together significant viewpoints on
metaphor. Writers from various disciplines - linguistics and semantics, the
philosophy of language, literary criticism, aesthetics - are represented, and
Ricoeur's analysis follows a widening path from the word, through the
sentence, to language as discourse. By displacing a more literal or proper
word, a metaphor can achieve an extension of meaning. The effects of
metaphor can also be observed in the broader realm of discourse - the
poem, for example, or the philosophical essay. Here, as Ricoeur shows,
metaphor becomes the power to redescribe reality-
The
writer's own Introduction is a wonderful discourse on the whole state
of language and meaning studies as these touch the issue of metaphor; few
thinkers are as adept as Ricoeur at placing their own work in the...
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Fülszöveg
Multi-disciplinary studies of the creation of
In this seminal work, Paul Ricoeur, a leading figure in European structuralist
and post'structuraiist controversies, brings together significant viewpoints on
metaphor. Writers from various disciplines - linguistics and semantics, the
philosophy of language, literary criticism, aesthetics - are represented, and
Ricoeur's analysis follows a widening path from the word, through the
sentence, to language as discourse. By displacing a more literal or proper
word, a metaphor can achieve an extension of meaning. The effects of
metaphor can also be observed in the broader realm of discourse - the
poem, for example, or the philosophical essay. Here, as Ricoeur shows,
metaphor becomes the power to redescribe reality-
The
writer's own Introduction is a wonderful discourse on the whole state
of language and meaning studies as these touch the issue of metaphor; few
thinkers are as adept as Ricoeur at placing their own work in the context of
that of others, naming the heroes and the villains/
John B. Davis, Philosophical Studies.
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