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Verbs and nouns of meaning in ancient Greek and Latin are polysemous, just as in the case of the English verb “to mean". Andreas T. Zanker considers how the ancient vocabulary could be used in different ways and investigates its development over time. In the first part of the book, Zanker argues for the role of metaphorical and metonymical transference in the creation of expressions of meaning; Greek and Roman authors used the same verbs to describe what inanimate things, including words a...

Greek language --- Latin language --- Metaphor. --- Grec (Langue) --- Latin (Langue) --- Métaphore --- Metonyms --- Métonymie --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Indo-European languages --- Greek philology --- Metonyms. --- E-books --- Métaphore --- Métonymie --- linguistics --- meaning --- Latin --- Greek

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How does the imagination work ? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight ? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism.The discovery in 1820 of a mysterious relationship between electricity and magnetism led not only to technological inventions-such as the dynamo and telegraph, which ushered in the "electric age"-but also to a profound reconceptualization of nature and the role the imagination plays in it. From the literary experiments of Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and André Breton to the creative leaps of Michael Faraday and Albert Einstein, Murphy illuminates how electromagnetism legitimized imaginative modes of reasoning based on a more acute sense of interconnection and a renewed interest in how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things.Murphy organizes his study around real and imagined electromagnetic devices, ranging from Faraday's world-changing induction experiment to new types of chains and automata, in order to demonstrate how they provided a material foundation for rethinking the nature of difference and relation in physical and metaphysical explorations of the world, human relationships, language, and binaries such as life and death. This overlooked exchange between science and literature brings a fresh perspective to the critical debates that shaped the nineteenth century.Extensively researched and convincingly argued, this pathbreaking book addresses a significant lacuna in modern literary criticism and deepens our understanding of both the history of literature and the history of scientific thinking.

Electromagnetism in literature. --- Metonyms. --- Électromagnétisme --- Métonymie. --- Littérature et sciences. --- Literature and science. --- Dans la littérature. --- Poe, Edgar Allan, --- Balzac, Honoré de, --- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Balzac, Honoré de --- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste de --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation.

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The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. The authors in this volume investigate a wide range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the identification of source domains of metaphorical expressions, the relationship between metaphor and discourse, the priming of metaphors, and the historical development of metaphors. The studies deal with a variety of metaphorical and metonymic source and target domains, including the source domains SPACE, ANIMALS, BODY PARTS, ORGANIZATIONS and WAR, and the target domains VERBAL ACTIVITY, ECONOMY, EMOTIONS and POLITICS. In their studies, the authors present a variety of corpus-linguistic methods for the investigation of conceptual mappings, for example, corpora annotated for semantic categories, concordances of individual source-domain items and patterns, and concordances of target-domain items. In sum, the papers in this volume show how a wide range of corpus-linguistic methods can be used to investigate a variety of issues in cognitive linguistics; the combination of corpus methods with a cognitive-linguistic view of metaphor and metonymy yields new answers to old questions (and to new questions) about the relationship between language as a conceptual phenomenon and language as a textual phenomenon.

Information systems --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Mathematical linguistics --- Metaphor --- Metonyms --- Cognitive grammar --- Data processing --- Métaphore --- Métonymie --- Grammaire cognitive --- Data processing. --- Informatique --- #KVHA:Cognitieve linguistiek --- #KVHA:Metaforen --- #KVHA:Metoniemen --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Metonymy --- Figures of speech --- Parabole --- Reification --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Metaphor - Data processing --- Metonyms - Data processing --- Cognitive grammar - Data processing --- Cognitive linguistics. --- corpora. --- data analysis.