Contents
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 Syncretistic Circumference: A Museum of Metaphors
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