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Publication details [#4617]
Fiumara, Gemma Corradi. 1995. The Metaphorical Process: Connections Between Language and Life. London: Routledge. 196 pp. URL
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
bodily projection | cognition and maturity | embodiment | heuristic use of metaphor | interpersonal | knowledge and metaphor | language and life | literal/metaphorical | literality | Literalness | metaphor as process | metaphor reception | metaphor transmission | metaphorical process | metaphorical projection | metaphoricity | opposition metaphor | philosophy
ISBN
041512624X
Abstract
Table of Contents
Connections between language and life
An interpersonal approach to metaphoricity
Devaluation and employment of metaphors
Interactive and representational concerns
Metaphor as process
The metaphorical matrix of theories
The life of language
An evolutionary perspective
A language for life
The limits of a `lifeless' philosophy
Language as metabolic process
The interdigitation of fields
Propositional and non-propositional factors
The question of boundaries and links
Juvenile and adult cognitive styles
Interepistemic links
The oppositional metaphor
On being right in arguments
Agreement and disagreement
Controversial zeal
The maturation of knowledge
Problems of literality
The pathology of literalness
Cognition and maturity
The relationship between digital and analogic styles
Notes on the difference between digital and analogic styles
Connections between digital and analogic processes
Inquiries into discreteness and continuity
The interaction between metaphoricity and literalness
The heuristic use of metaphors
The quest for accuracy
Detachment and participation
Embodied philosophy
A scrutiny of detachment
Ways of cognitive participation
The awareness of metaphorical projections
Metaphorical projections
Cognitive propensities
Embodied experience
The circulation of metaphors
The metaphorical function
The development of identity
Meaning, conversation and play
Symbolic play and affectual synergies
The generation and use of links
Reciprocity and silencing
Bodily projections
Vicissitudes of self-formation
Life and language synergies
From biological life to dialogic existence
Primal interactions
Reception and transmission of metaphors