Tropical Truth(s) : : The Epistemology of Metaphor and other Tropes / / ed. by Armin Burkhardt, Brigitte Nerlich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Barcelona, Antonio,; Barnden, John A.,; Bazzanella, Carla,; Braungart, Wolfgang,; Brdar, Mario,; Brdar-Szabó, Rita,; Burkhardt, Armin,; Colston, Herbert L.,; Danblon, Emmanuelle,; Domínguez, Pedro José Chamizo,; Holmqvist, Kenneth,; Lee, Mark,; Meyer, Paul Georg,; Morra, Lucia,; Nerlich, Brigitte,; Norrick, Neal R.,; Oosthuizen Mouton, Nicolaas T.,; Płuciennik, Jarosław,; Wallington, Alan M.,; Yamanashi, Masa-aki,; Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia,
• HerausgeberIn: Burkhardt, Armin,; Nerlich, Brigitte,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (427 p.)

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 verständlich machen und durch das sich ihr Weltverständnis ausdrückt. Indem sie unserer Weltwahrnehmung und auch schon unserem alltäglichen Sprechen zugrunde liegen, muss - spätestens seit Nietzsches grundsätzlicher Wahrheitsskepsis angesichts der Ubiquität des sog. „übertragenen Sprachgebrauchs“ - die Frage nach der Möglichkeit der Wahrheit Tropen enthaltender Sätze gestellt werden. - 18 Beiträge 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) überhaupt Anspruch erheben können.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Metaphor, Simile and Truth -- Metaphor, empiricism and truth: A fresh look at seventeenth-century theories of figurative language -- Metaphor and truth in Rationalism and Romanticism -- Persuasion: between trope and truth -- Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth -- Truth, metaphor and counterfactual meaning -- ‘Metaphorical’ truth conditions, context, and discourse -- Metaphorical modes of perception and scanning. A comparative study of Japanese and English -- Natural Language Processing: Minds, brains, and programmes -- Pear-shaped and pint-sized: Comparative compounds, similes and truth -- “Money is ruthlessly finding its own level”: Metaphor and metonymy in verb semantics -- 2. Metonymy, Synecdoche and Truth -- Between poetry and economy Metonymy as a semantic principle -- Metonymy in conceptualization, communication, language, and truth -- Synecdoche: A trope, a whole trope, and nothing but a trope? -- 3. Other Tropes and Truth -- Eironeia urbana -- Irony, analogy and truth -- Euphemism and truth -- Princess Antonomasia and the Truth: Two Types of Metonymic Relations -- “Mummy, I love you like a thousand ladybirds”: Reflections on the emergence of hyperbolic effects and the truth of hyperboles