Another reference for this month's metaphor program is
chapter 2 of Julian Jayne's "The Origin of
Consciousness..."
<sneak preview>
"The grand and vigorous function of metaphor is the
generation of new language as it is needed, as human
culture becomes more and more complex."
"The lexican of language, then, is a finite set of terms
that by metaphor is able to stretch out over an infinite
set of circumstances, even to creating new circumstances,
thereby."
"... consciousness is the work of lexical metaphor. It is
sprung out of the metaphiers of expression, and their
paraphiers, projecting paraphrands that exist only in the
functional sense."
Enjoy,
Mark B
--- 3rdWavedave <dlt44@ipa.net> wrote:
> mfer's
>
> References to check out:
>
> Metaphors embody and configure both the abiding and the
> changing
> preoccupations of an age. (Barbara M. Stafford, Body
> Criticism: Imaging
> the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine 465 (1993).
>
> Metaphor:
>
> a way of understanding something. "Many kinds of
> understanding can be
> seen as explanation . . . Often an explanation can be
> found by seeing
> one object or event as similar to another in a way that
> was not
> previously noticed, in other words, by making up and
> using a novel
> analogy (Kurzweill 395)." An analogy is, of course, a
> type of metaphor.
> In a metaphor, one of the terms may be absent (and we
> need to guess what
> it is) or both terms may be present. We can substitute
> terms in the
> metaphor and thus create novel metaphors. This structure,
> that operates
> by using a method which will take shape as I go, will
> create novel
> metaphors from elements of text that it selects and fuses
> according to
> certain principles. The first principle is pattern
> recognition
> (identifying elements that repeat). -Tony Veale
>
> George Lakoff's metaphor
> site-http://cogsci.berkeley.edu/MetaphorHome.html
> Excellent AI metaphor site by Tony Veale -School of
> Computer
> Applications, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
> http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tonyv/metaphor.html
> Making Sense of Metaphors- law & visual
> metaphors-http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/meta_int.htm
>
> 3WD
>
>
>
>
> MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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