The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds
Author:   Eric Steinhart
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   2001 ed.
Volume:   299
ISBN:  

9780792370048


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 July 2001
Format:   Hardback
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The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds


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""The Logic of Metaphors"" uses techniques from possible worlds semantics to provide formal truth-conditions for many grammatical classes of metaphors. It gives logically precise and practically useful syntactic and semantic rules for generating and interpreting metaphors. These rules are implemented in a working computer programme. The book treats the lexicon as a conceptual network with semantics provided by an intensional predicate calculus. It gives rules for finding analogies in such networks. It shows how to analyze texts containing metaphors both syntactically and semantically and how to use structural similarities between parts of possible worlds to provide truth-conditions for metaphors. Meanings for metaphors are linked to the modal logics of identity and indiscernibility. The book shows how to extend deductive and adductive inference systems so as to handle metaphors and how to handle novel metaphorical word-senses. Indispensable reading for philosophers, logicians, linguists and computer scientists.

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Author:   Eric Steinhart
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2001 ed.
Volume:   299
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.190kg
ISBN:  

9780792370048


ISBN 10:   079237004
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 July 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Language.- 3. Conceptual Structures.- 4. Analogy.- 5. Analogical Transference.- 6. Metaphorical Communication.- 7. Analogy and Truth.- 8. Metaphor and Inference.- 9. Lexical Meanings.- 10. Conclusion.- References.

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