Overview
- Offers an interdisciplinary perspective on metaphor
- Creates bridges between incommensurable theories of metaphor
- Demonstrates that metaphor is not a natural kind but a theory-dependent philosophical notion
Part of the book series: UNIPA Springer Series (USS)
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This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition. There has been much discussion of metaphor in the past, but it was characterized by a certain fragmentation and lacked interdisciplinarity. In this field of study, the dominance of Cognitive Linguistics, epitomized by the Conceptual Metaphor Theory of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, has caused the marginalization of alternative perspectives. To fill this gap, this book embarks on an interdisciplinary journey, inviting different theoretical frameworks to engage in a fruitful dialog. It navigates the labyrinth of theories and illuminates the nuanced facets of metaphor.
At the center of this exploration are three central questions: whether metaphor belongs to the realm of style or thought, the intricate interplays between literal and metaphorical meanings and the integration of propositional and non-propositional elements in the construction of metaphorical meaning.
Through a careful blend of historical analysis and contemporary hypotheses, the book unravels the complexities of metaphor, considering its evolution across the centuries and the myriad interpretations it evokes. By bringing together work from different fields, it ultimately shows that a definition of metaphor is theory-dependent and that metaphor is not a natural kind, but a complex and multifaceted philosophical concept whose study requires a multi-dimensional approach that transcends narrow theoretical boundaries. In this way, the book explores these considerations’ most important philosophical consequences and offers new insights into this fundamental aspect of human language.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Enigma of Metaphor
Book Subtitle: Philosophy, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science
Authors: Stefana Garello
Series Title: UNIPA Springer Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56866-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56865-7Published: 05 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56868-8Due: 19 April 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56866-4Published: 30 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2366-7516
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 172
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Language Acquisition and Development, Applied Linguistics