Tropical Truth(s)
The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes
Tropes are not only rhetorical means, which are used as a creative and / or persuasive linguistic means in poetry and public speech. They are also a cognitive tool which helps people to understand the world and to express their world. As they are the basis on which our worldview and even our everyday speech is founded, the question must be posed as to whether utterances containing tropes can be said to be true. This has been an epistemological problem since Nietzsche expressed his doubts about the possibility that figurative language could give access to truth. However, since then research has paid little attention to this question. -18 pape…
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Weitere Autoren: Nerlich, Brigitte (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-023020-8
- EAN: 9783110230208
- Produktnummer: 16666328
- Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 427 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.9 cm 799 g
- Abbildungen: black & white line drawings, figures
- Gewicht: 799
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Armin Burkhardt, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg und Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham.
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