Two dimensions of meaning : similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy, language, culture, and ecology
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Two dimensions of meaning : similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy, language, culture, and ecology
（Routledge studies in linguistics, 37）
Routledge, 2022
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2 dimensions of meaning : similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy, language, culture, and ecology
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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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