Two dimensions of meaning : similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy, language, culture and ecology

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    • Goatly, Andrew

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Two dimensions of meaning : similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy, language, culture and ecology

Andrew Goatly

Routledge, 2022

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning. It shows how they manifest in oral, literate, print and internet cultures, in language acquisition, pragmatics, dialogism, classification, the semantics of grammar, literature and, most centrally, metaphor and metonymy. The book situates these reflections on similarity and contiguity in the interplay of language, cognition, culture, and ideology, and within broader debates around such issues as capitalism, biodiversity, and human control over nature. Positing that while similarity-focused systems can be reductive, and have therefore been contested in social science, philosophy and poetry, and contiguity-based ones might disregard useful statistical and scientific evidence, Andrew Goatly argues for the need for humans to entertain diverse metaphors, models, and languages as ways of understanding and acting on our world. The volume also considers the cognitive connections between the similari

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  • Introduction: The similarity/contiguity distinction and an outline of the book
  • The two dimensions: similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy
  • The prevalence of metaphor and metonymy and their interplay
  • The development of language in two dimensions of meaning
  • Corpus linguistics, collocation and lexical priming
  • The syntagmatic contiguity of metonymy in grammar and narrative
  • Nouns and noun phrases: the similarity dimension, classification, quantification and commodification
  • Nouns and the similarity mode: classification, taxonomies, paradigms and measurement in science and mathematics
  • Resisting noun-based classification and scientific universals in sociology, linguistics, philosophy and poetry
  • Resisting classification, and emphasizing process: GM Hopkins, Duns Scotus, Taoism, Buddhism
  • Process and interrelatedness in quantum physics and Blackfoot, a language without nouns
  • Feyerabend and Conquest of abundance: abstraction versus the richness of being
  • Conclusion (1): Evaluating the two dimensions
  • Conclusion (2): Interplay, synthesis, and the need for diverse metaphors
  • Appendix 1: Metaphor themes associated with the canonical event schema: "Change is movement", "Activity is movement forwards", etc.
  • Appendix 2: Lexical details of the "Emotion is sense impression" nexus

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With broad appeal, this innovative volume will appeal to scholars involved in wider debates on meaning, within the fields of cognitive semantics, pragmatics, metaphor and metonymy theory, critical discourse analysis, and the philosophy of language. Ambitious in scope, this book situates reflections on similarity and contiguity in the interplay of language, cognition, culture, and ideology, and within broader debates around such issues as capitalism, biodiversity, and human control over nature.

Table of Contents

0. Introduction: the similarity/contiguity distinction and an outline of the book. 1. The two dimensions: similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy 2. The prevalence of metaphor and metonymy and their interplay 3. The Development of Language in two Dimensions of Meaning. 4. Corpus linguistics, collocation and lexical priming 5. The syntagmatic contiguity of metonymy in grammar and narrative. 6. Nouns and noun phrases: the similarity dimension, classification, quantification and commodification. 7. Nouns and the similarity mode: classification, taxonomies, paradigms and measurement in science and mathematics. 8. Resisting noun-based classification and scientific universals in sociology, linguistics, philosophy and poetry 9. Process and interrelatedness in quantum physics and Blackfoot, a language without nouns. 10. Feyerabend and Conquest of abundance: abstraction versus the richness of being 11. Conclusion (1): Evaluating the two dimensions 12. Conclusion (2): interplay, synthesis, and the need for diverse metaphors Appendix1. Metaphor themes associated with the canonical event schema: CHANGE IS MOVEMENT, ACTIVITY IS MOVEMENT FORWARDS etc. Appendix 2. Lexical details of the EMOTION IS SENSE IMPRESSION nexus.

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