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

Published by De Gruyter 2010

Tropical Truth(s)

The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes

Edited by: Armin Burkhardt and Brigitte Nerlich

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110230215

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About this book

Tropes are not only rhetorical means, which are used as a creative and / or persuasive linguistic means in poetry and public speech. They are also a cognitive tool which helps people to understand the world and to express their world. As they are the basis on which our worldview and even our everyday speech is founded, the question must be posed as to whether utterances containing tropes can be said to be true. This has been an epistemological problem since Nietzsche expressed his doubts about the possibility that figurative language could give access to truth. However, since then research has paid little attention to this question. ‑18 papers by linguists, philosophers, psychologists and literary scholars have been collected in this volume. Their 21 authors use various approaches or paradigms in order to define metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, euphemism, antonomasia and hyperbole and find an answer to the crucial epistemological questions, namely whether and to what extent utterances containing tropes can be said to be true or false.

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Armin Burkhardt, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg und Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham.

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Metaphor, Simile and Truth
Metaphor, empiricism and truth: A fresh look at seventeenth-century theories of figurative language Nicolaas T. Oosthuizen Mouton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Metaphor and truth in Rationalism and Romanticism Pedro José Chamizo Domínguez and Brigitte Nerlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Persuasion: between trope and truth Emmanuelle Danblon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth John A. Barnden and Alan M. Wallington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Truth, metaphor and counterfactual meaning Mark Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
‘Metaphorical’ truth conditions, context, and discourse Carla Bazzanella and Lucia Morra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Metaphorical modes of perception and scanning. A comparative study of Japanese and English Masa-aki Yamanashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Natural Language Processing: Minds, brains, and programmes Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Pear-shaped and pint-sized: Comparative compounds, similes and truth Neal R. Norrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
“Money is ruthlessly finding its own level”: Metaphor and metonymy in verb semantics Paul Georg Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
2. Metonymy, Synecdoche and Truth
Between poetry and economy Metonymy as a semantic principle Armin Burkhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Metonymy in conceptualization, communication, language, and truth Antonio Barcelona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Synecdoche: A trope, a whole trope, and nothing but a trope? Brigitte Nerlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
3. Other Tropes and Truth
Eironeia urbana Wolfgang Braungart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Irony, analogy and truth Herbert L. Colston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Euphemism and truth Armin Burkhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Princess Antonomasia and the Truth: Two Types of Metonymic Relations Kenneth Holmqvist and Jarosław Płuciennik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
“Mummy, I love you like a thousand ladybirds”: Reflections on the emergence of hyperbolic effects and the truth of hyperboles Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Germanisten, Anglisten, Romanisten, Literaturwissenschaftler, Sprachwissenschaftler, Bibliotheken, Institute
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 427
Keywords: Epistemology; Metaphor; Tropes; Truth

eBook

Published: April 23, 2010
ISBN: 9783110230215

Hardcover

Published: April 19, 2010
ISBN: 9783110230208