Productive Perils: On Metaphor as a Theory-Building Device

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/lf/1/2/article-p102.xml?tab_body=pdf" target="_blank" >https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/lf/1/2/article-p102.xml?tab_body=pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lf-2018-0010" target="_blank" >10.2478/lf-2018-0010</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Productive Perils: On Metaphor as a Theory-Building Device

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Metaphors constitute a relevant method for both building and making sense of theories. Semiotics is not exempt from their influence, and an important range of semiotic theories depends on metaphors to be meaningful. In this paper, we wish to examine the place of theory-constitutive metaphors considering the interaction view and the extent to which some areas of semiotics, particularly, the semiotics of culture and biosemiotics, are enriched by having metaphors dominate the way we think about them. The intention of the paper is not to document the different metaphors that have built semiotic theory, but rather to observe through a number of examples that semiotic research contains theory-building metaphors and that these are productive means of developing semiotic thinking further, with the caveat that theory change can be unexpected based on how we build metaphors for our theories.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Productive Perils: On Metaphor as a Theory-Building Device

Popis výsledku anglicky

Metaphors constitute a relevant method for both building and making sense of theories. Semiotics is not exempt from their influence, and an important range of semiotic theories depends on metaphors to be meaningful. In this paper, we wish to examine the place of theory-constitutive metaphors considering the interaction view and the extent to which some areas of semiotics, particularly, the semiotics of culture and biosemiotics, are enriched by having metaphors dominate the way we think about them. The intention of the paper is not to document the different metaphors that have built semiotic theory, but rather to observe through a number of examples that semiotic research contains theory-building metaphors and that these are productive means of developing semiotic thinking further, with the caveat that theory change can be unexpected based on how we build metaphors for our theories.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Linguistic Frontiers

ISSN

2544-6339

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

1

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CH - Švýcarská konfederace

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

102-111

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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