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Metaphor and Metonymy: Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and Others
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This chapter argues in favour of Roman Jakobson’s privileging of metonymy alongside metaphor as primary linguistic tropes (‘trope’ is to be understood here, in a significant modification of Aristotle’s understanding of metaphor, as deviation from usage perceived or felt as normal). But Jakobson shares with Aristotle, as also with Paul Ricoeur and philosophical theorists at large, the fault of paying too little respect to actual literary practice. The result is that they identify metaphor as the defining characteristic of poetic language, mistakenly ignoring the importance of metonymy as well.
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“This genre presupposes a surplus of meaning in the wisdom-text that goes beyond mere literal interpretation, and it exhibits a deeply embedded commitment to teleology and epistemological positivism: because God's word, transmitted through his medium Moses, is perfect, it is the exegete's responsibility to employ his capacities to unpack what it was that God meant, i.e. why he said it.50”
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- Authors
- Silk, M.
- Corresponding author
- Silk, Michael
- Venue
- Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2003-03-20
- Pages
- 115-148
- OpenAlex
- W2473650894
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 12 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 73 · 2018: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 3
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- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Poetry Analysis and Criticism
- Keywords
- metaphor, metonymy, Roman Jakobson, Aristotle, Paul Ricoeur, poetic language, literary practice, poetics
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