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Tropical Truth(s)

By Armin Burkhardt

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Tropical Truth(s)

By Armin Burkhardt

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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 papers by linguists, philosophers, psychologists and literary scholars have been collected in this volume. Their 21 authors use various approaches or paradigms in order to define metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, euphemism, antonomasia and hyperbole and find an answer to the crucial epistemological questions, namely whether and to what extent utterances containing tropes can be said to be true or false.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
436
Release Date:
2010-04-19
Publication Date:
2010-04-19
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3110230208
ISBN13:
9783110230208
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
799 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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