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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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On Dead Literalness and Live Metaphorics
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On the Body and the Mind
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On Metaphorizing and World-Making
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Earl R. MacCormac, Consulting Professor of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center
`Most discussions of metaphor tacitly assume that literal meaning is direct, precise, and unproblematic, while metaphorical meaning is indirect, vague, and fraught with semantic and epistemological difficulties. Zdravko Radman's Metaphors: Figures of the Mind undercuts this complacent assumption. It shows that literal meaning is an achievement that results from a series of explorations, elaborations, projections and refinements, many of them metaphorical.'
Catherine Z. Elgin, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
`It is hardly an exaggeration to view the cognitive approach to metaphor as the emergence of a new paradigm: not only because the questions asked by the various scholars are now couched in radically different terms. For this reason, serious and well-informed syntheses are welcome, if one is to burrow one's way through the mountain of research and theories produced by `metaphormania' of the nineteen eighties. In Metaphors: Figures of the Mind, Radman offers such a status quaestionis, and in addition traces paths of thought, investigation and application which take the reader beyond the bounds of mainstream metaphorology.'
Jean-Pierre van Noppen, Professor of English Linguistics, Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metaphors: Figures of the Mind
Authors: Zdravko Radman
Series Title: Library of Rhetorics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2254-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4356-1Published: 31 December 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4780-9Published: 05 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2254-4Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0929-6298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 188
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science