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Metaphor : its cognitive force and linguistic structure / Eva Feder Kittay.
- Title
- Metaphor : its cognitive force and linguistic structure / Eva Feder Kittay.
- Author
- Kittay, Eva Feder
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
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- Description
- x, 358 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive philosophical theory which explains the cognitive contribution of metaphor. The argument is illustrated with analysis of metaphors from literature, philosophy, science, and everyday language.
- Series Statement
- Clarendon library of logic and philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p.[328]-343.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Towards a perspectival theory -- 2. The identification of metaphor : Literal and conventional meaning ; Locating incongruity -- 3. An interlude concerning context: A relational theory of meaning : On the very idea of metaphorical meaning ; A relational approach to meaning -- 4. Interpreting metaphor : Metaphor as second-order meaning ; The metaphorical function -- 5. Some alternative approaches: A critique : The predicate transfer thesis ; The linguistic approach: Feature addition and deletion ; A critique of atomistic theories as bases for a theory of metaphor -- 6. Semantic field theory : The historical and conceptual basis of the theory ; The structure of semantic fields ; Semantic fields and word meaning -- 7. Semantic fields and the structure of metaphor : Displaying the structure of metaphor ; Metaphorical v. non-metaphorical transfers of meaning -- Appendix: Extracts from Plato's Theaetetus.
- ISBN
- 0198242468 (pbk)
- 0198249357 :
- LCCN
- gb^90046466^^z^^^^^87001596^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library