By Armin Burkhardt,Brigitte Nerlich
ISBN-10: 3110230208
ISBN-13: 9783110230208
Tropes should not basically rhetorical skill, that are used as an artistic and / or persuasive linguistic capability in poetry and public speech. also they are a cognitive software which is helping humans to appreciate the area and to precise their global. As they're the foundation on which our worldview or even our daily speech is based, the query needs to be posed to whether utterances containing tropes could be stated to be real. This has been an epistemological challenge when you consider that Nietzsche expressed his doubts concerning the threat that figurative language may well supply entry to fact. notwithstanding, due to the fact that then examine has paid little cognizance to this question. ‑18 papers via linguists, philosophers, psychologists and literary students were accrued during this quantity. Their 21 authors use numerous techniques or paradigms in an effort to outline metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, euphemism, antonomasia and hyperbole and locate a solution to the the most important epistemological questions, specifically even if and to what quantity utterances containing tropes should be stated to be real or false.
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