Metaphor and Thought reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. Philosophers, psychologists, linguists, and educators raise serious questions about the viability of the traditional distinction between the literal and the metaphorical, discussing problems ranging from the definition of metaphor to its role in language acquistion, learning, scientific thinking, and the creation of social policy. In the second edition, the contributors have updated their original essays to reflect changes in their fields. The volume also includes six new chapters that present important and influential new ideas about metaphor that have appeared in such fields as the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, linguistics, cognitive and clinical psychology, education, and artificial intelligence. The book will serve as an excellent graduate-level textbook in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.
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"There are books that deserve a special place for their being long-lasting and valuable contributions to the clarification of a field or a theoretical object. Metaphor and Thought has been one among them since it first appeared in 1979 and is still certainly so, now, in this enriched second edition." Cristina Cacciari, Contemporary Psychology
"...an excellent investment for anyone who would like to sample a menu rich in papers on this crucial psychological process. For those still wavering in skepticism (who cannot believe metaphor is all that crucial), this book could well make the difference." Contemporary Psychology
"Ortony and others involved in this project are to be congratulated...this volume is a persuasive demonstration that for the theories of language, communication, and cognition, an adequate account of metaphor is a necessity and no mere nicety." Canadian Journal of Philosophy
"...an excellent investment for anyone who would like to sample a menu rich in papers on this crucial psychological process. For those still wavering in skepticism (who cannot believe metaphor is all that crucial), this book could well make the difference." Contemporary Psychology
"Ortony and others involved in this project are to be congratulated...this volume is a persuasive demonstration that for the theories of language, communication, and cognition, an adequate account of metaphor is a necessity and no mere nicety." Canadian Journal of Philosophy
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This new edition reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. Reorganized and expanded, it includes six new chapters as well as updated versions of the original essays to cover recent developments in the field.
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Ortony's 2nd edition of Metaphor and Thought incorporates research done since the publication of his first edition. Authors added include George Lakoff, Ray Gibbs and other leading researchers in this heavily explored area. This volume partially duplicates the first edition while providing the reader with additional insights from cognitive psychology, linguistics and philosophy of language. Owners of the first edition will want to augment it with this volume. The original group was impressive : Max Black, Ortony, Schank, Reddy, et al. Their ranks have been swollen with apt companions to produce this well organized discussion of the many ways metaphor influences the lives and cultures of the people using it to express ideas.
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indirect oxymora, radar passage, toolmakers paradigm, simile thesis, nominative metaphors, nonmetaphorical cancellation, learning something radically, homeostatic property cluster kinds, defective literal meaning, frame restructuring, predicative metaphor, event structure metaphor, metaphoric aids, affords epistemic access, conduit metaphor expressions, implicative elaboration, salient predicates, metaphorical utterance meaning, homeostatic property cluster definitions, metaphoric information, nonliteral utterances, semantic pathology, nonliteral comparisons, partial denotation, irony comprehension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A central presupposition of our culture is that the description and explanation of physical reality is a respectable and worthwhile enterprise - an enterprise that we call "science". Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indirect oxymora, radar passage, toolmakers paradigm, simile thesis, nominative metaphors, nonmetaphorical cancellation, learning something radically, homeostatic property cluster kinds, defective literal meaning, frame restructuring, predicative metaphor, event structure metaphor, metaphoric aids, affords epistemic access, conduit metaphor expressions, implicative elaboration, salient predicates, metaphorical utterance meaning, homeostatic property cluster definitions, metaphoric information, nonliteral utterances, semantic pathology, nonliteral comparisons, partial denotation, irony comprehension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Invariance Principle, Bela Lugosi, United States, Dylan Thomas, Max Black, West End, Gary Hart, New York, Philosopher's Stone, University of Chicago Press, Walden Pond, Wallace Stevens, Bob Jones, Emily Dickinson, George Washington, John Dean, John Demjanjuk, Justice Douglas, More Than Cool Reason, Sir Walter Scott, Attila the Hun, Elizabeth Taylor, George Miller, Jane Espenson New!
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