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L, Colston Herbert, ed. Interpreting figurative meaning. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Baicchi, Annalisa, ed. Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ftl.9.
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Harchenko, Vera. The richness of color in Russian. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1895948.
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The monograph explores direct color designations with various ways of translating color characteristics: emotional, figurative, playful, tint. The analysis of various objects embodying color (animals and plants, food and minerals, fabrics and natural phenomena) is given. Some color meanings lost in modern Russian are analyzed. Color in painting, iconography, fiction, poetry, colloquial discourse, science, medicine, production, folklore is also included in the structure of the book. Throughout the narrative, the amazing subtlety of the Russian language in the transmission of the color palette is emphasized.
 It can be useful to students, postgraduates and teachers of philological universities and faculties, as well as to all readers interested in the issues of color designation.
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Dingena, Marian. The creation of meaning in advertising: Interaction of figurative advertising and individual differences in processing styles. Thesis Publishers, 1994.
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Gertsman, Elina, ed. Abstraction in Medieval Art. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989894.
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Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore cognitively, visually demanding? Is it, conversely, precisely about perfection? To what extent is the abstract predicated on theorization of the unrepresentable and imperceptible? Does medieval abstraction pit aesthetics against metaphysics, or does it enrich it, or frame it, or both? Essays in this collection explore these and other questions that coalesce around three broad themes: medieval abstraction as the untethering of the image from what it purports to represent; abstraction as a vehicle for signification; and abstraction as a form of figuration. Contributors approach the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives-formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, epistemological.
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Bavaeva, Ol'ga. Metaphorical parallels of the neutral nomination "man" in modern English. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1858259.
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The monograph is devoted to a multidimensional analysis of metaphor in modern English as a parallel nomination that exists along with a neutral equivalent denoting a person. The problem of determining the essence of metaphorical names and their role in the language has attracted the attention of many foreign and domestic linguists on the material of various languages, but until now the fact of the parallel existence of metaphors and neutral nominations has not been emphasized.
 The research is in line with modern problems of linguistics related to the relationship of language, thinking and reflection of the surrounding reality. All these problems are integrated and resolved within the framework of linguistic semantics, in particular in the semantics of metaphor. Multilevel study of language material based on semantic, component, etymological analysis methods contributed to a systematic and comprehensive description of this most important part of the lexical system of the English language.
 Metaphorical parallels are considered as the result of the interaction of three complexes, which allows us to identify their associative-figurative base, as well as the types of metaphorical parallels, depending on the nature of the connection between direct and figurative meaning. Based on the analysis of various human character traits and behavior that evoke associations with animals, birds, objects, zoomorphic, artifact, somatic, floral and anthropomorphic metaphorical parallels of the neutral nomination "man" are distinguished. The social aspect of metaphorical parallels is also investigated as a reflection of gender, status and age characteristics of a person.
 It can be used in the training of philologists and translators when reading theoretical courses on lexicology, stylistics, word formation of the English language, as well as in practical classes, in lexicographic practice.
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Meanings and Metaphors: Activities to Practise Figurative Language (Cambridge Copy Collection). Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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English and Danish Dictionary: Containing the Genuine Words of Both Languages with Their Proper and Figurative Meanings. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.
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Berthelson, Andreas. An English and Danish Dictionary: Containing the Genuine Words of Both Languages With Their Proper and Figurative Meanings. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.
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Berthelson, Andreas. An English and Danish Dictionary: Containing the Genuine Words of Both Languages With Their Proper and Figurative Meanings. Franklin Classics, 2018.
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Berthelson, Andreas. An English and Danish Dictionary: Containing the Genuine Words of Both Languages With Their Proper and Figurative Meanings. Franklin Classics, 2018.
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Colston, Herbert L., and Gibbs Raymond W. Jr. Interpreting Figurative Meaning. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Colston, Herbert L., and Gibbs Raymond W. Jr. Interpreting Figurative Meaning. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Colston, Herbert L., and Gibbs Raymond W. Jr. Interpreting Figurative Meaning. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Gibbs, Raymond W., and Herbert L. Colston. Interpreting Figurative Meaning. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Davis, Wayne A. Calculability, Convention, and Conversational Implicature. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0004.
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I applaud the arguments in Lepore and Stone (2015) that Gricean, Neo-Gricean, and Relevance theories of conversational implicature and utterance interpretation are deeply flawed because the additional meanings speakers convey when using sentences are conventional rather than calculable. I then go on to rebut several conclusions Lepore and Stone endorse that do not follow: that there is no such thing as conversational implicature; that in figurative speech speakers do not mean anything beyond what the sentences they utter mean; that anything a speaker means is something the speaker directly intends and says; and that any meanings conveyed conventionally are given by the grammar or semantics of the language. Along the way, I argue that conventions are constituted by certain causal processes, not mutual expectations, and I distinguish two types of speaker meaning.
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Berthelson, Andreas. An English and Danish Dictionary: Containing the Genuine Words of Both Languages with Their Proper and Figurative Meanings; Interspersed with a Large ... Sayings of 1; Volume 1. Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2018.
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Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2020.
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Baicchi, Annalisa. Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2020.
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Nagarajan, Vijaya. Designs. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170825.003.0006.
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This chapter focuses on types of kōlam designs. The basic categories are katta (squares) and pulli (dots). The highly ritualized forms are the navagraha (nine heavenly bodies, including the five planets) and yantras. The symbolic meanings of geometric, figurative, and landscape kōlams, whether they are itheegam (traditional) and nagareegam (modern), are discussed. Kōlam-making tools are explained, such as the traditional personal notebooks and printed pamphlets and more modern stencils and plastic stick-on decals. A discussion of an 1884 kōlam chapbook and other chapbooks from the 20th century gives a historical perspective. The 20th-century Indian choreographer Chandralekha gave kōlam designs a central position in her work.
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Tzohar, Roy. Metaphor as Perceptual Illusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.003.0003.
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This chapter turns to the understanding of metaphor in the school of grammatical analysis, focusing on Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya (VP), along with its commentaries, and examining its relevance to later Buddhist formulations on the topic. The discussion focuses on Bhaṛthari’s argument for the figurative existence of all the referents of words, as well as his analogy between metaphor and perceptual illusion. It argues that Bhartṛhari lays the foundation for a sophisticated, pragmatic account of both linguistic and perceptual meanings that allow a relationship of correspondence between language and phenomena—without assuming externalism. This perspective is shown to provide important context for the understanding of subsequent Yogācāra arguments about metaphor.
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Green, Mitchell. Showing, Expressing, and Figuratively Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0009.
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We first correct some errors in Lepore and Stone’s discussion of speaker meaning and its relation to linguistic meaning. With a proper understanding of those notions and their relation, we may then motivate a liberalization of speaker meaning that includes overtly showing one’s psychological state. I then distinguish this notion from that of expression, which, although communicative, is less cognitively demanding than speaker meaning since it need not be overt. This perspective in turn enables us to address Lepore and Stone’s broadly Davidsonian view of figurative language, which rightly emphasizes the role of imagination and perspective-taking associated with such language, but mistakenly suggests it is sui generis relative to other types of pragmatic process, and beyond the realm of communication. Figurative utterances may influence conversational common ground, and may be assessed for their aptness; they also have a characteristically expressive role that a Davidsonian view lacks the resources to explain.
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The critical double: Figurative meaning in aesthetic discourse. University of Alabama Press, 1995.
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Gordon, Paul. The Critical Double: Figurative Meaning in Aesthetic Discourse. University Alabama Press, 1994.
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Colouring meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language. John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
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Hafez, Mohammed M. Apologia for Suicide. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190656485.003.0007.
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Suicide attacks have become a conventional tactic in the arsenal of militant Islamists. Yet suicide is strictly prohibited in the Islamic heritage. Radical Salafists have succeeded in framing suicide attacks as religiously permissible, indeed venerable, by elevating human intentionality above textual forms of authority, and by euphemistically labeling such acts as martyrdom. They have also inferred a normative paradigm from Islam’s formative generations, pointing to examples of excessive risk-taking by the Prophet’s companions. In making these rationalizations, Salafist jihadists have cast aside their strict constructionist ethos and unveiled figurative meanings (ta’wil) in original verses and traditions to permit acts of self-immolation. In other words, in seeking to affirm their religious authenticity, they have violated their Salafist methodology. This methodological slippage has permitted other interpretive innovations, such as the permissibility of killing civilians and coreligionists in the course of justified warfare.
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(Illustrator), Frank Lobdell, ed. Frank Lobdell: The Art of Making and Meaning. Hudson Hills Press, 2003.
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Ayto, John. The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780198845621.001.0001.
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Over 10,000 entries What is it to ‘cock a snook’? Where is the land of Nod? Who was first to go the extra mile? Find the answers to these questions (and many more!) in the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. This dictionary uncovers the meanings of myriad phrases and sayings that are used daily in the English language, encompassing more than 10,000 figurative expressions, similes, sayings, and proverbs. More than 400 idioms have been added to this new edition, and comprise recently coined and common sayings alike. New additions include ‘back of the net’, ‘drag and drop’, ‘go it alone’, ‘how come?’, ‘if you ask me’, ‘make your skin crawl’, and ‘wind your neck in’. Illustrative quotations sourced from the Oxford Corpora give contextual examples of the idioms and their standard usage, and many entries include background information on the origins of the idiom in question. An updated thematic index makes for easy navigation, and anyone who is interested in the origins and diversity of English vernacular will have hours of fun browsing this fascinating dictionary.
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Tzohar, Roy. The Seeds of the Pan-Figurative View. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.003.0005.
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Having presented the role of upacāra in Asaṅga’s critique of an essentialist theory of meaning, this chapter now turns to examine additional aspects of the concept of metaphor as it appears in other Yogācāra-related Buddhist sources. Concluding the book’s survey of the Buddhist context of the Yogācāra, the text explores the possible ways in which a wide variety of Buddhist sources—including Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakoṣabhāṣya (and Sthiramati’s commentary on these sections), the Yogācāra-related Laṅkāvatārasūtra (LAS), and Dignāga’s Pramāṇasamuccaya (PS)—contributed to Sthiramati’s full-fledged theory of metaphor. Here, the reconstruction of the context of the Yogācāra understanding of metaphor becomes more specific, tracing not only the broad common presuppositions underlying figurative usage, but also the possibility of a more concrete intertextual exchange that helped shape Sthiramati’s claims—some of them highly innovative—on this topic.
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Hopkins, Lisa, and Bill Angus, eds. Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474454117.001.0001.
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This collection of essays examines the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. It explores the place of the road in the early modern imagination and so opens windows on a geography which is central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations. Chapters are grouped under three headings: ‘Shakespeare’s Roads’, ‘The Embodied Road’ and ‘Writing the Road’. These allow particular angles of insight into early modern historical and cultural contexts of physical and imaginary roads and include topics as various as the economics of the early modern road network in Shakespeare’s plays, the implications of the siting of theatres on London’s roads, Shakespeare’s allusions to the dangerous nature of crossroads, the poetry of staging roads, dramatic depictions of travelling communities and masterless fools, the material effects of the physical road in depictions of pilgrimage, and both literal and figurative roads in gendered perceptions of mobility. The complex picture of cultural conceptions and ideologies of the early modern road that emerges enhances our understanding of early modern subjectivities.
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Barrett, Chris. Milton’s Paradise Lost and the Atlas of Violence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816874.003.0004.
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Like Faerie Queene and Poly-Olbion, Milton’s Paradise Lost interrogates the essential meaning-making structures of poetry, using the enabling, distortive logics of cartography to think the work of representation. This chapter considers the ways the map’s origin as product of the military arms race haunts Milton’s epic, and how the poem probes the map’s tendency to disrupt the figurative structures on which poetry relies. Space, consciously framed for discursive consideration, defies the poem’s dominant use of simile and analogy, and the disruptions posed by the landscapes in Paradise Lost destabilize the figurative language that should contain violence within the poem—but fail, at sites of represented terrain, to blunt the materialization of corporeal injury. The poem triangulates figurative language, violence, and the topographical representation, such that the representation of terrain often accompanies the transformation of figurative injury into material damage, a perversion of the poem’s penchant for turning metaphor into concretion.
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Pérez-Sobrino, Paula. Cognitive Modeling and Musical Creativity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457747.003.0006.
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This chapter provides a preliminary account of different figurative operations in twelve examples of program classical and contemporary music involving music and text. The main goals are to explore the directionality and scope of the mappings between language and music and to investigate the communicative effects of each operation in a musical work. Metonymy, metaphor, hyperbole, paradox, and irony are compared and contrasted to highlight the dynamism and flexibility of conceptual mechanisms to account for meaning construction in multimodal contexts. Although all these conceptual tools consist of putting in correspondence two entities, there are differences that allow us to draw boundaries among them. The main advantage of adopting a view based on figurative operations is that they overcome the two-domain layout of metaphors while counting on a limited inferential capacity that allows the prediction of possible communicative effects.
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Kövecses, Zóltan. Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making : the Role of Body and Context: The Role of Body and Context. BRILL, 2019.
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Tzohar, Roy. Conversing with a Buddha. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.003.0007.
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This chapter explores the broader epistemic ramifications of the Yogācāra theory of meaning and metaphor. It points out features that this theory shares with contemporary analytical causal theories of reference—especially the solution that they offer to the problem of incommensurability. The text presents the Yogācāra understanding of this problem, notably in Sthiramati’s Triṃśikābhāṣya (TriṃśBh) and Asaṅga’s Mahāyānasaṃgraha (MS), and examines how Sthiramati’s figurative theory of meaning addresses it. The conclusion points out deep structural affinities between the Yogācāra understanding of linguistic meaning and its understanding of experience, particularly of intersubjective experiences of the external word. This allows an identification and articulation of several fundamental themes that run through Yogācāra thought in general, and through the school’s conception of meaning in particular, implying a broadly conceived theory of meaning that is not merely linguistic, but also perceptual.
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Moran, Richard. Seeing and Believing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190633776.003.0002.
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Metaphor is classed among the “figurative” uses of language, and the idea of “imagery” is associated with metaphor in both literary and philosophical discussions. But why should what is conveyed by metaphor be thought to be any more closely related to imagery or anything experiential than the understanding of literal language or other tropes such as irony? Relatedly, the vividness metaphor is also often associated with an idea of “force” or power, and the ability of metaphor to persuade. Both of these thoughts are in tension with a traditional philosophical notion of the content or meaning of a statement or proposition. This paper explores these two ideas in connection with a critical examination of Donald Davidson’s denial that a metaphor should be seen as saying or meaning anything at all beyond the literal meaning of the words employed.
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Tzohar, Roy. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.003.0008.
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This, the conclusion of this book, draws out those features and themes that are common to the various accounts of metaphor presented in the preceding chapters and examines their possible applications. The text also briefly examines further ways in which these features may be applied to deepen and enrich our understanding of the Buddhist and more generally Indian philosophical engagement with figurative language. As a quick case study, the final part of the discussion explores how the Yogācāra theory of meaning sheds light on the concrete use of distinct figures, focusing on a list of similes prevalent in the school’s literature.
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Williams, Tami. Negotiating Art and Industry in the Postwar Context. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038471.003.0003.
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This chapter studies several of Dulac's early narrative Impressionist films, and her ideal of cinema as a spatiotemporally complex universe of symbols—one in which meaning is created through an intertextual network of figurative associations, such as pictorial and rhythmic gesture. Dulac's integral approach, based on life, movement, and rhythm, exemplified in a surviving extract of what is considered the first Impressionist film, La Fête espagnole (1920), is used in a particularly innovative and feminist manner in one of her earliest extant films, La Belle Dame sans merci (1921). Dulac's use of dance as a discursive metaphor disrupts a heteronormative, monogamous, and linear narrative structure, creating a queer subtext in her later films, both commercial and avant-garde.
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Brownlee, Victoria. ‘By moste sweete and comfortable allegories’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812487.003.0005.
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The Song of Songs, as a poetic dialogue between two lovers, presented literally minded biblical commentators with a thorny exegetical dilemma: either accept the presence of a purely erotic text in scripture, or make the case for a literal reading that was figurative. Like early modern exegesis of the Song, poetic recapitulations of this biblical book, such as those by William Baldwin, Francis Quarles, and Robert Aylett, rely on complex figural reading practices to substantiate a spiritual meaning not directly implied by the biblical text. But this dependence on human words to secure the relationship between sign and spiritually signified exposes reformed anxieties about the inherently fallen nature of the human mind, and the broader inadequacy of language to articulate spiritual truth.
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Oklopcic, Zoran. Constituent Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799092.003.0002.
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Building on the preliminary discussion of constituent imagination from Chapter 1, Chapter 2 clarifies the meaning of moving ‘beyond’ and proceeds to articulate the framework of assumptions behind the anti-imperialist struggles for national liberation, social emancipation, and international solidarity, and to explore three unstated charges behind the verdicts of their historical failure: their jeopardy, futility, and perversity. Rather than accepting these charges, Chapter 2 offers a more nuanced polemical anatomy of the concept of the people; a more elaborate account of scenic, figurative, and conceptual choices that might allow us to respond to the ‘rhetoric of reaction’ differently; the morphology of the ‘affective loop’ of popular sovereignty that will complicate that endeavour; and the features of the imaginary ‘spectroscope’ that will make it easier.
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Tzohar, Roy. Metaphor as Absence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.003.0002.
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This chapter presents a working definition of metaphor (Upacāra) on the basis of the common features that underlie its understanding by the various Indian schools of thought. In particular, it examines the understanding of metaphor in the early works of the Mīmāṃsā and Nyāya schools, which address the issue as part of their broader discussion of the denotation of nouns. The discussion establishes that while these schools’ theories of meaning share much of their basic understandings of the mechanism of metaphor, their interpretations can be seen as archetypes of the two poles of Indian thinking about figurative language—as buttressing or undermining ordinary language use, respectively. These two approaches, as we will see, recur as a leitmotif in the works of other schools of thought.
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Education, PCG. Grade 6, Module 2, Unit 1 : Analyzing Figurative Language, Word Choice, Structure and Meaning: Bud, Not Buddy and Steve Jobs's Commencement Address, Student Materials. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2015.
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Tzohar, Roy. What It All Comes Down To. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.003.0006.
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This chapter assembles the pieces of the puzzle, reconstructing Sthiramati’s argument in his commentary on Vasubandhu’s Triṃśika that all language use is metaphorical. It demonstrates how Sthiramati joins many of the elements introduced in the previous chapters of this book into an innovative philosophical theory of meaning. The innovation lies in tying together, through the pan-figurative view, the Yogācāra understanding of the causal activity of consciousness with a linguistic theory of sense. This theory enabled Sthiramati to present a unique understanding of discourse that distinguishes among varying levels of truth within the conventional realm. This understanding sat well with the Yogācāra’s soteriological and theoretical needs, and most important, allowed Sthiramati to defend the meaningfulness of the school’s own metaphysical discourse in the face of the Madhyamaka’s radical conventionalism. This suggests that the prominent dispute between the early Yogācāra and the Mādhyamika turned on linguistic rather than ontological issues.
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Baras, Dan. Calling for Explanation. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197633649.001.0001.
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Abstract This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the idea that some facts call for explanation, an idea that underlies influential debates in metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. Special attention is given to reliability arguments in philosophy of mathematics and metaethics, and to fine-tuning arguments in philosophy of religion and cosmology. The book clarifies what it might mean to say that a fact calls for explanation, singling out an epistemic sense that is the focus of most of the book, and maps out possible views about which facts call for explanation and what kind of explanation they call for. It then develops a novel way of thinking about calling for explanation. It is argued that calling for explanation is a figurative form of speech without a fixed meaning. This in turn sheds new light on arguments premised on there being a fact that calls for explanation.
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de la Luz Ibarra, María. Extending Kinship. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037573.003.0011.
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This chapter examines private elder care in a broader context of constructed kinship relations by focusing on Mexicana elder care workers in Santa Barbara, California. More specifically, it considers the case study of Cecilia Ramos, a worker who forms part of a family care group and who literally and figuratively “extends” kinship to her ward. Before discussing Cecilia's case, the chapter provides an overview of the evolving range of elder care in Santa Barbara. It also reviews the literature on domestic work and the role that personalism continues to play within the occupation, especially as it pertains to workers' expressed desires for closer “family” relations with their employers. It concludes by showing that, in the case of Cecilia, “extending” kinship assumes two meanings. First, she literally extends her own close kin relations into the workplace and facilitates friendships among her biological female kin and her ward. Second, Cecilia commits herself and her family to provide care until her ward dies.
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Bal, Mieke. Endless Andness. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350276741.
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In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally. In this book, the third of her companion volumes on art's political agency, Bal explores perception through an intense engagement with the work of Belgian sculptor Ann Veronica Janssens. In a series of vividly-recalled encounters with Janssen's practice over a number of years, Bal presents a new conception of embodied perception - art experienced in a body conjured into participation and transformed by the experience. From Janssens' 'mist room' works and the CorpsNoir sculptures through to the fugitive, porous Aerogel, Bal traces an art which eludes the subject-object distinction to alter our ideas about the potential of political art in abstract and figurative forms. Enticing us simultaneously to lose ourselves and to come home, the tenuous materiality of installation art empowers those who live in the permanently lost and migratory condition that characterizes contemporary experience. In celebrating and interrogating the work of this prolific and innovative artist, Mieke Bal transforms our understanding of non-representational art to create a new awareness of perception and performance in the shared spaces of our world.
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Bach, Kent. Exaggeration and Invention. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0003.
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In Imagination and Convention Lepore and Stone make two sweeping claims about language, convention, and communication. One is that linguistic communication is of what is conventionally encoded. The other, complementary, claim is that when speakers use language in nonconventional ways, their intention is not to communicate some specific thing but rather to invite the hearer into a bit of “imaginative engagement.” So understanding an utterance requires no more than disambiguating it; insofar as imaginative interpretation is required, its aim is distinct from understanding the utterance. I agree with L&S that linguistic convention is much more comprehensive than traditionally supposed and that language is often used figuratively without specific communicative intentions, but their two claims go implausibly further. Both are subject to counterexample and counterargument, and rely on reasoning that downplays some distinctions and disregards others, as abetted by casual use of such key terms as “meaning,” “interpretation,” “convention,” and “Gricean.”
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Ward, H. Clifton. Clement and Scriptural Exegesis. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863362.001.0001.
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Abstract How might one describe early Christian exegesis? This question has given rise to a significant reassessment of patristic exegetical practice in recent decades, and the present book makes a new contribution to this reappraisal of patristic exegesis against the background of ancient Greco-Roman education. In tracing the practices of literary analysis and rhetorical memory in the ancient sources, this book argues that there were two modes of archival thinking at the heart of the ancient exegetical enterprise: the grammatical archive, a repository of the textual practices learned from the grammarian, and the memorial archive, the constellations of textual memories from which meaning is constructed. In a new treatment of the theological exegesis of Clement of Alexandria—the first study of its kind in English scholarship—this book suggests that an assessment of the reading practices that Clement employs from these two ancient archives reveals his deep commitment to scriptural interpretation as the foundation of a theological imagination. Clement employs various textual practices from the grammatical archive to navigate the spectrum between the clarity and obscurity of Scripture, which results in the striking conclusion that the figurative referent of Scripture is one twofold mystery, bound up in the Incarnation of Christ and the higher knowledge of the divine life. This twofold scriptural mystery is discovered in an act of rhetorical invention as Clement reads Scripture to uncover the constellations of texts—about God, Christ, and humanity—that frame its entire narrative.
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Tzohar, Roy. A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.001.0001.
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This book is about what metaphors mean and do within Buddhist texts. More specifically, it is about the fundamental Buddhist ambivalence toward language, which is seen as obstructive and yet necessary for liberation, as well as the ingenious response to this tension that one Buddhist philosophical school—the early Indian Yogācāra (3rd–6th century CE)—proposed by arguing that all language use is in fact metaphorical (upacāra). Exploring the profound implications of this claim, the book presents the full-fledged Yogācāra theory of meaning—one that is not merely linguistic, but also perceptual.Despite the overwhelming visibility of figurative language in Buddhist philosophical texts, its role and use have received relatively little attention in scholarship to date. This book is the first sustained and systematic attempt to present an indigenous Buddhist philosophical theory of metaphor. By grounding the Yogācāra’s pan-metaphorical claim in its broader intellectual context, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist, the discussion reveals an intense Indian philosophical conversation about metaphor and language that reached across sectarian lines, and it also demonstrates its potential contribution to contemporary philosophical discussions of related topics. The analysis of this theory of metaphor radically reframes the Yogācāra controversy with the Madhyamaka; sheds light on the school’s application of particular metaphors, as well as its unique understanding of experience; and establishes the place of Sthiramati as an original Buddhist thinker of note in his own right, alongside Asaṅga and Vasubandhu.
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Dagg, Kevin. The Kurds. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450382.
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The Kurds is a group of six wooden portrait heads of members of the migrant Kurdish community in Edinburgh. The output builds on Dagg’s longstanding practice research into figurative sculpture, in particular techniques and processes of woodcarving, including novel approaches to polychrome. It brings this research expertise to a focused interrogation of the meaning and potential of portrait sculpture with respect to a particular, marginalised community. It investigates how portrait sculpture can meaningfully function as a mode of community engagement and through this foreground broader questions around migration, identity and exclusion.Three of the heads were exhibited in After The Storm, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, April 2017. Two heads were selected for the Society of Portrait Sculptors Annual Exhibition in London: FACE 2019, 3–8 June 2019 in La Galleria Pall Mall, the only forum for contemporary portrait sculpture in the UK. One of the sculptures, The Poser, was the only sculpture to be selected from over 700 entries for the Scottish Portrait Awards, which was held at Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh, 26 October – 1 December 2018, and Glasgow Arts Club,Glasgow, 21 January – 9 February 2019. The Poser was shortlisted as one of six finalists by a distinguished judging panel (including the artist John Byrne, and deputy director and chief curator of the Scottish Portrait Gallery, Imogen Gibbons) and was awarded the Glasgow Arts Club Award for Fine Art. The Matriarch, won runner-up in the Heatherley School of Fine Art Prize for the best 3D human portrait, June 2019."