Aspects of Metaphor in Physics
eBook - PDF

Aspects of Metaphor in Physics

Examples and Case Studies

  1. 309 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Aspects of Metaphor in Physics

Examples and Case Studies

About this book

For decades there has been awareness of the fact that the natural sciences and the language they use are not metaphor-free domains. This study draws together statements on this phenomenon made in a discourse context hitherto dominated by theoreticians and philosophers of science and points up new perspectives of an interdisciplinary nature discussed here primarily from the viewpoint of cognitive semantics. How do metaphors enter into a discourse with physics? To what extent are the methods used and the issues addressed in physics influenced by metaphors? How do the ubiquitous metaphors of everyday language help us to impose a structure on physics knowledge and express abstract ideas in concrete images? These and other related issues are discussed with reference to copious examples.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783484304079
eBook ISBN
9783110915938
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Abbreviations
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. Part One: The notion of metaphor and its relation to the discourse of physics
  5. 2. Approaches to metaphor: past and present
  6. 2.1. A short history of metaphor
  7. 2.2. Metaphor, an enemy of science: the early modern view
  8. 2.3. Metaphor, a friend of science: contemporary physicists on scientific language
  9. 2.4. Current paradigms in research on metaphor in science
  10. 3. Identifying metaphor in physical science: sorts, functions, and related concepts
  11. 3.1. Metaphor and related concepts
  12. 3.2. A working definition of metaphor
  13. 3.3. Sorts and functions of metaphor in physical discourse
  14. Part Two: Metaphors in physics
  15. 4. Underlying metaphors of everyday thought in meta-theory and the concept formation of physics
  16. 4.1. Hypostasis
  17. 4.2. Spatial metaphor
  18. 4.3. Animism and anthropomorphism
  19. 5. World theories in meta-theory and the concept formation
  20. 5.1. The notions “world theory” and “world model”
  21. 5.2. World machine
  22. 5.3. The world as a text
  23. 6. Stipulative reference extension
  24. 6.1. Stipulation of meaning: Huygens’ notion of sound wave
  25. 6.2. Invisible light and Roentgen’s “invisible rays”
  26. 7. Assimilative metaphor
  27. 7.1. “Fluid” electricity
  28. 7.2. The concept of wave
  29. 7.3. Life stories of metaphor: from metaphorical to literal and literal to metaphorical
  30. 8. Theory-constitutive and educational metaphors
  31. 8.1. Constitutive metaphor: waves of probability
  32. 8.2. Educational metaphor: curvature of space
  33. 8.3. From explanation to rhetoric
  34. 9. Metaphor and style: “figures of speech” in the language of physics
  35. 9.1. The position of “figures of speech” in the discourse of physics
  36. 9.2. The arrow of time
  37. 9.3. Heat death
  38. 9.4. Maxwell’s demon
  39. 10. Transfer of denotations in the terminology of physics
  40. 10.1. Metaphors in general language and in the terminology of physics: the general language basis for the transfer of denotations
  41. 10.2. Types of transfer of denotations
  42. 10.3. The terminology of physics and related disciplines
  43. 10.4. Fantasy-metaphor: the case of particle physics
  44. 10.5. “Mechanical work”: underlying metaphor, world theory, scientific analogy
  45. 10.6. Catachresis and satellite metaphors
  46. 10.7. Mathematical analogy
  47. 11. Thoughts and conclusions
  48. References