Mapping the Origins of Figurative Language in Comparative Literature

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Mapping the Origins of Figurative Language in Comparative Literature

Trim, Richard

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2023

132

Mole

Inglês

9781032140520

15 a 20 dias

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Towards a global model of figurative origins





Conceptual mapping



Overview of mappings in pandemic poetry



Cultural versus universal features



Linguistic structures



Poetic licence




Figurative creativity in language structure





The power of figurative language



Old and new words



Composite structures



Morpho-syntax and stylistic effects



Neologisms




Cross-language evidence for the limits of linguistic creation





Linguistic relativity



Translating language structures



Language distance



Innovative morphology



Metaphor versus simile



Dating translation



Composite order and semantics



Symbolic features




Underlying figurative thought





Cross-language imagery



Cognitive theories



Individual conceptualisation



Cognitive linguistics



Metaphor and symbol



Cognitive and conflictual paradigms




Tracing cultural history





Diachronic conceptual networking



Diachronic salience



Historical origins of figurative words



The love/death conceptual metaphor



Understanding figurative language in Early Modern English




Theories of reference in conceptual mapping





Extra-linguistic reference



Mental spaces



Possible worlds and discourse worlds



Reference in conceptual mappings



Philosophy and reference



Hidden reference theory



Textual reference




Textual reference in the form of narrative





Variants of love



Social attitudes in D.H. Lawrence



Existentialism in Simone De Beauvoir



Personal psychology in Hermann Hesse




Personal biography in figurative language





Narrative and personal biography



"Distortion" of personal lives



Criticism of biographical theories



Autobiography and autofiction



Individual biographies



Symbolic influence in D.H. Lawrence



The philosophical background to Simone De Beauvoir



Freudian psychology in Hermann Hesse



Real and non-real worlds




Conceptualisation of the real world





Time trajectories in literal meaning



Multicultural conceptualisation of time and space



Time and space in literary thought



Conceptualisation and beliefs in Emily Dickinson




The transformation of reality





The Venezuelan poet Eugenio Montejo



Transfigured time



Time symbolism and language structure



Switching between past and future



New spatial forms



Notions of real worlds




Multiple conceptual mapping





The symbolic notion of "The South" in Jorge Luis Borges



The background to Borges' life



Narratological conceptual mappings



Language-specific symbolism in Borges



Fantasy and the defiance of death




The overall picture
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figurative cognition;literary discourse analysis;neologism formation;diachronic semantics;narrative conceptualization;poetic creativity;cross-linguistic figurative mapping