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Metaphor Reexamined

A Non-Aristotelian Perspective

by Liselotte Gumpel

Breaking away from the traditional "neo-Aristotelian" view of metaphor. Liselotte Gumpel's ambitious study offers a new "non-Aristotelian" approach based on the phenomenological semantica of Roman Ingarden and the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. The author seeks to grasp the meaning of metaphor throughan exhaustiveexploration of meaning in language, from its acquisition by young speakers to its repeated origination in sound when spoken and in the visual sign when written. She identifies the fundamental semantic operations that differentiate literal from literary use of language. Next, metaphor is examined in all of its semantic idiosyncrasies. Gumpel's theory culminates in the development of a functional or structural metaphor that can neither dissapear nor "die." Applying the theory, Gumpel presents several textual analyses, relating the categories of argument, discent, and theme to the sue of metaphor by Brecht, Dickinson, and Celan. A final section provides an incisive critique of theories of metaphor from Aristotle to the present. An important intellectual accomplishment, Metaphor Reexamined yields original insights and supplies a mine of information for scholars in the philosophy of language, literary theory, semiotics, and linguistics.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Ringing in the New Millennium of Non-Aristotelian Semantics
  • Part I: The Task of Ontological Placement
    • The Task of Ontological Placement
      • The Procreative and Coercive Powers of Language
      • Sorting out the Crucial Domains: Realities in Circles
  • Part II: The Non-Aristotelian Theory, Pure And Applied
    • Non-Aristotelian Semantics: Three Trichotomies of Ontic Heteronomy
      • The “Picture of Language”: General Semiotic Perspective
      • Hyletic Design: Trees in Threes—The Leaps of Language
      • Noematic Designation: Crests and Troughs—The Concepts of Language
    • Toward a Non-Aristotelian Metaphor: From Syntactic Noun to Poetic Nominalization
      • Noetic Constitution, Open and Closed: The Structures of Language
      • Hierarchy of Syntax. Empirical Contact through Context: Argument
      • Dicent and Rheme as Constructs: Quasi-Judgment versus Metaphor
      • Dicent and Rheme in Concretization: Time and Stance through Genre
    • The Structures Proven: Argument, Dicent, Rheme in Action
      • Analysis: Baumgärtner and the Brecht Hypothesis
      • Analysis: Levin on Nonrecoverable Compression in Dickinson
      • Analysis: Hamburger on the Lyric I: Semantic Content or Connective in Celan?
  • Part III: The Neo-Aristotelian Metaphor through the Ages
    • The Neo-Aristotelian Metaphor through the Ages
      • The Founding Fathers
      • The Syncretistic Circumference: A Museum of Metaphors
      • The Modern Followers
        • i. Anglo-Saxon Pairing
        • ii. Grammarians and Linguists
        • iii. German Iconoclasm: The Absolute or Bold “Bild”
        • iv. French Deconstruction and Reconstruction
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Metadata

  • isbn
    978-0-253-05548-4
  • publisher
    Indiana University Press
  • publisher place
    Bloomington, Indiana USA
  • restrictions
    CC-BY-NC-ND
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    Copyright © Trustees of Indiana University
  • rights holder
    Indiana University Press
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