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Few figures of classical rhetoric can claim more spatial relevance than “chiasmus,” the figure of symmetrical convergence used by poets, novelists, rhetoricians, mnemonicists and others. Is chiasmus a tool of literati who appropriate spatial forms to pull their plots to closure, or is there an independent architectural tradition of chiasmus? If one pulls together the clues about metonymy, the logic...
Building on Michael Otte’s insights regarding the roles of icon, index, and symbol in mathematical signification, definitions of these categories of representation are explored in terms of metaphors and metonymies. A nested model of signs, based on Peirce’s triadic formulation, is described, along with his trichotomic distinction among interpretants that are intentional, effectual, and communicational...
This chapter contains some keywords, including Madness, Medievalism, Melancholy, Melodrama, Mesmerism, Mythopoeia, Metonymy, and Metaliterature. This book compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussed by authors of the Romantic period ‐ and most often deliberated by critics and literary historians of the era. It provides deep insights into the political, social, and cultural climate...
According to the cognitive linguistics, metaphor and metonymy, as the two basic cognitive methods, are the main resource of meaning extension. Based on that, we attempted to explore the meaning extension modes through studying the concrete language materials of Kan and the visual verb group. The extensions of Kan, the basic level category word, are motivated by the two metaphorical modes of thinking-as-vision...
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