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Zur Metapher versammelt Annäherungen an das Phänomen des Metaphorischen in und aus den Bereichen der Literatur, der Philosophie und der Wissenschaften. Relevante und bahnbrechende neue Aufsätze aus der analytischen Philosophie, der Wissenschaftstheorie (vor allem der Naturwissenschaften), der Linguistik und der Hermeneutik bieten eine Zusammenschau der Erklärungen dieses für die unterschiedlichen Disziplinen zentralen Konzepts "Metapher". Nach einleitenden Aufsätzen der Herausgeber, die sich kritisch mit der Behandlung der Metapher in den Kognitionswissenschaften (Eder) und der Davidsonschen Philosophie (Czernin) auseinandersetzen, bündelt der Abschnitt zur analytischen Philosophie die gegenwärtige Debatte in einander kommentierenden Aufsätzen von Severin Schroeder, Wolfgang Künne, Franz Josef Czernin und Samuel C. Wheeler. Die Abschnitte zu den Wissenschaften und zur Literatur beleuchten die Metapher als Analyseinstrument und als zu untersuchender Gegenstand, an Fallbeispielen und als allgemein wissenschaftstheoretische Überlegungen.

Metaphor --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification

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"Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking - constructing analogies and making connections between ideas - and an important way of using language to explain abstract ideas or to find indirect but powerful ways of conveying feelings. By investigating people's use of metaphors, we can better understand their emotions, attitudes and conceptualisations, as individuals and as participants in social life. This book describes practice in the analysis of metaphor in real-world discourse. When real-world language use is taken as the site of metaphor study, researchers face methodological issues that have only recently begun to be addressed. The contributors to this volume have all had to find ways to deal with methodological issues in their own research and have developed techniques that are brought together here. Using as a basis the discourse dynamics approach to metaphor developed by the editor, the book explores links between theory and empirical investigation, exemplifies data analysis and discusses issues in research design and practice. Particular attention is paid to the processes of metaphor identification, categorisation and labelling, and to the use of corpus linguistic and other computer-assisted methods."--Publisher's description.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Metaphor. --- Metaphor --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification

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Metafoor --- Metaphor --- Métaphore --- Parabole --- Metaphor. --- Metaphor in literature.

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"Paradigms for a Metaphorology may be read as a kind of beginner's guide to Blumenberg, a programmatic introduction to his vast and multifaceted oeuvre. Its brevity makes it an ideal point of entry for readers daunted by the sheer bulk of Blumenberg's later writings, or distracted by their profusion of historical detail. Paradigms expresses many of Blumenberg's key ideas with a directness, concision, and clarity he would rarely match elsewhere. What is more, because it served as a beginner's guide for its author as well, allowing him to undertake an initial survey of problems that would preoccupy him for the remainder of his life, it has the additional advantage that it can offer us a glimpse into what might be called the 'genesis of the Blumenbergian world.'"-from the Afterword by Robert SavageWhat role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated systems of thought?In Paradigms for a Metaphorology, originally published in 1960 and here made available for the first time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) approaches these questions by examining the relationship between metaphors and concepts. Blumenberg argues for the existence of "absolute metaphors" that cannot be translated back into conceptual language. These metaphors answer the supposedly naïve, theoretically unanswerable questions whose relevance lies quite simply in the fact that they cannot be brushed aside, since we do not pose them ourselves but find them already posed in the ground of our existence. They leap into a void that concepts are unable to fill.An afterword by the translator, Robert Savage, positions the book in the intellectual context of its time and explains its continuing importance for work in the history of ideas.

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Metaphor in the Bible. --- Metaphor. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification