Contexts of Metaphor / Michiel Leezenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leezenberg, Michiel, author.

Series:

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 7.

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concepts.

Metaphor.

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Chapters

From the History of Metaphor

The Pre- and Protohistory of Metaphor

Prehistorical and preliterate societies

Metaphor in Mesopotamia: Sumer and Akkad

Aristotle on Metaphor, Comparison, and Similarity

Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani's 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: Gibbs & Indurkhya

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780585473932

0585473935

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9780585473932 DOI