Two dimensions of meaning : similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy, language, culture and ecology /: similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy, language, culture and ecology. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrew Goatly.
• Authors: Goatly, Andrew, 1950-
• 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.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 401.43; Metaphor; Metonyms; Semantics; Cognitive grammar; Language and languages -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000600247; 9781000600186; 9781003285977
• Related ISBNs: 9781032258089
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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