Contexts of Metaphor

Name: Contexts of Metaphor
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ISBN: 9780080438818

ISBN-10: 0080438814

ISBN-13: 9780080438818

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michiel Leezenberg

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This study presents an approach to metaphor that systematically takes contextual factors into account. It analyses how metaphors both depend on, and change, the context in which they are uttered, and specifically, how metaphorical interpretation involves the articulation of asserted, implied and presupposed material. It supplements this semantic analysis with a practice-based account of metaphor at the conceptual level, which stresses the role of sociocultural factors in concept formation.

Book details

List price: $168.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: BRILL
Publication date: 3/9/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 322
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Chapters From the History of Metaphor


The Pre- and Protohistory of Metaphor


Prehistorical and preliterate societies


Metaphor in Mesopotamia



Aristotle on Metaphor, Comparison, and Similarity


Mysteries of Eloquence



Giambattista Vico: Metaphor and the Origin of Language


Twentieth-Century Views of Metaphor


Semantic Approaches


Referentialist views


Descriptivist views


Intermezzo: metaphor in generative grammar


Pragmatic Approaches


The Gricean program


Searle


The Davidsonian Program: Metaphor Without Meaning


Conceptualist Approaches: Cognitive Semantics


Metaphor and Context


Metaphor and Context-Dependence


Kaplan's logic of demonstratives


Context-dependence of property expressions


Metaphor and the logic of demonstratives


A comparison: Stern's 'metaphor as demonstrative'


Metaphorical Assertion


Stalnakerian views of assertion


Pragmatic intrusion: the neo-Gricean program


Thematic dimensions, presupposition, and assertion


Extensions: scope and shift of dimensions


Novel metaphor


Metaphor, Concept, and Society


Conceptualist Views of Metaphor: A Radical Critique


Extending cognitive semantics



A Wittgensteinian critique of concepts


Metaphor and Concept Formation: A Vygotskyan Approach


Vygotsky: concepts, language, and context


Similarity and the role of theories


Concepts and metaphor


Beyond Literal Meaning


Bibliography


Index