Tropical Truth(s)
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Tropical Truth(s)

The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes

  1. 433 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Tropical Truth(s)

The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes

About this book

Tropen sind nicht nur rhetorische Mittel, die in der Dichtung und in der öffentlichen Rede als kreative und/oder persuasive Sprachmittel Verwendung finden. Sie sind auch ein kognitives Instrumentarium, mit dessen Hilfe sich die Menschen die Welt verstĂ€ndlich machen und durch das sich ihr WeltverstĂ€ndnis ausdrĂŒckt. Indem sie unserer Weltwahrnehmung und auch schon unserem alltĂ€glichen Sprechen zugrunde liegen, muss ? spĂ€testens seit Nietzsches grundsĂ€tzlicher Wahrheitsskepsis angesichts der UbiquitĂ€t des sog. "ĂŒbertragenen Sprachgebrauchs" ? die Frage nach der Möglichkeit der Wahrheit Tropen enthaltender SĂ€tze gestellt werden. ? 18 BeitrĂ€ge von Linguisten, Philosophen, Psychologen und Literaturwissenschaftlern sind im vorliegenden Band versammelt. Ihre 21 Autoren versuchen, Metapher, Metonymie, Synekdoche, Ironie, Euphemismus, Antonomasie und Hyperbel aus ihrer jeweiligen fachlichen bzw. paradigmatischen Sicht zu bestimmen, vor allem aber gehen sie den Fragen nach, ob und inwieweit die genannten Tropen enthaltende Äußerungen auf den Ausdruck von Wahrheit (oder Falschheit) ĂŒberhaupt Anspruch erheben können.

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Yes, you can access Tropical Truth(s) by Armin Burkhardt, Brigitte Nerlich, Armin Burkhardt,Brigitte Nerlich in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistic Semantics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Metaphor, Simile and Truth
  5. 2. Metonymy, Synecdoche and Truth
  6. 3. Other Tropes and Truth