(Im)material Language: Revealing the Body through Metaphor

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lf-2024-0023" target="_blank" >10.2478/lf-2024-0023</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

(Im)material Language: Revealing the Body through Metaphor

Original language description

When Roman Jakobson, based on his exploration of the problem of aphasia, distinguishes two aspects that characterize language - metaphoricity and metonymy - he touches on an important issue that will become a central theme for some of his followers. This question is the materiality of language. From the point of view of the aphatic himself, metaphoricity and metonymy express two extreme ways of relating to the material of language. A productive elaboration of this thesis in the history of semiotics has been provided by Julia Kristeva, who radicalizes Jakobson&apos;s conclusions by working with the fundamental concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis. In the paper, I will compare Kristeva&apos;s approach to that of Jacques Lacan and attempt to reconstruct the theoretical assumptions that allow Kristeva to ascribe to metaphor a privileged role that consists of the constant opening of the sphere of the sign towards the body of the subject. To illustrate some important aspects, I will turn to Vítězslav Nezval&apos;s novella Sexual Nocturne (1931), where the connection between language and body plays a central role.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Linguistic Frontiers

ISSN

2544-6339

e-ISSN

2544-6339

Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1-6

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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