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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Underhill, James William (1967-....)
Titre(s) : Creating worldviews [Texte imprimé] : metaphor, ideology and language / James W. Underhill
Publication : Edinburgh : Edinburgh university press, copyright 2011
Description matérielle : VIII- 299, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-299) and index
Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning
ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory
as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. James W. Underhill then
widens the scope of metaphor theory by investigating not only the worldview our language
offers us, but also the worldviews which we adapt in our own ideological and personal
interpretations of the world. This book explores new avenues in metaphor theory in
the work of contemporary French, German and Czech scholars. Detailed case studies
marry metaphor theory with discourse analysis in order to investigate the ways the
Czech language was reshaped by communist discourse, and the way fascism emerged in
the German language. The third case study turns metaphor theory on its head: instead
of looking for metaphors in language, it describes the way language systems (French
and English) are understood in terms of metaphorically-framed concepts evolving over
time. Including a multilingual glossary of key terms and concepts, this is an ideal
volume for anyone new to the topic, as well as those already interested in metaphor
theory and the analysis of worldviews
Sujet(s) : Métaphore
Philosophie du langage
Langage et culture
Idéologie et langage
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780748643158 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45436361z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45436361
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Pt. I. Metaphor ; 1. Metaphor and world-conceiving ; 2. A concern for metaphor
; 3. Metaphors we live by ; 4. Other developments in metaphor theory ; 5. Further
cognitive contrributions to metaphor theory ; 6. Diversity in the periphery ; ;
Pt. II. Case studies in Metaphor ; 7. The language of Czechoslovak Communist power
; 8. Hitlerdeutsch : Klemperer and the language of the Third Reich ; 9. Language in
metaphors
