Metaphor
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Metaphor
（Aristotelian Society series, v. 5）
Basil Blackwell, 1989
- : pbk
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Includes index
First published in paperback 1989
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What do metaphors mean? Why do we use them so much? Do they have a special kind of truth? These are among the many questions that David Cooper discusses in his wide-ranging study of a subject of growing importance for philosophers and students of language and literature. The author argues that the notion of metaphorical meaning, semantic or pragmatic, is a misguided one and that metaphorical truth is of only limited use in the appraisal of metaphors. Rather the main function of metaphorical talk is a social one: the "cultivation of intimacy" among speakers. Irony, "dead"metaphor, icons and the idea that language is fundamentally metaphorical are among the topics discussed in an account which ranges from Aristotle to the present day, from the analytic philosophy of Davidson to the work of continental writers such as Derrida, Barthes, and Gadamer.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The emergence of metaphor: questions of demarcation
- "metaphor, etc"
- literal and non-literal
- "a multi-dimensional problem". Part 2 meaning and metaphor: the traditional view
- metaphor and speaker's meaning
- metaphor without meaning. Part 3 the scope and function of metaphorical talk: "dead metaphor"
- why do we talk metaphorically?
- demarcation again. Part 4 metaphor and truth: vicarious truth
- schema, mimesis and "seeing as"
- metaphor without truth
- the primacy of metaphor.
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