The Literal Versus Figurative Dichotomy
THE LITERAL AND NONLITERAL IN LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT, Seana Coulson and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, eds., Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 25-52, 2005
25 Pages Posted: 3 Nov 2008 Last revised: 21 Dec 2010
Date Written: October 23, 2005
Abstract
A reconsideration of the standard questions concerning literal and nonliteral language and thought, from the point of view of conceptual integration theory.
The study of figure has been sidetracked from basic conceptual issues since the Greeks, with the surprising and humbling result that the study of figure, one of the oldest bodies of knowledge in the human sciences, remains in our age still in its infancy.
Keywords: literal, figurative, figure, conceptual integration, conceptual blending, metaphor, metonymy
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