Rhetoric, tropes, metaphor

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Definition of rhetoric art of persuasion, eloquence classification, study of tropes part of Medieval pedagogy (grammar, logic, rhetoric) rhetoric of science, politics, etc. limit-point of dichotomies (literal-figurative, ordinary-poetic language,philosophy-poetry,content-form/substance-appearance)
Anti-rhetorical stance against rhetorical use of language the Sophists, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Bacon it is just cosmetics, no need for facts puritan ideal of plain style
Rhetoric as appropriate Aristotle: poetry Cicero, Quintilian: civilizing the crowd through reason and eloquence eloquence comes from good character, grasp of truth
Definition of metaphor meta+pherein ‘the supreme ornament of style’ ‘seasoning of the meat’ transference, giving a different name for something
Theories of metaphor 1. deviation: language takes a detour 2. substitution: replacing a literal expression with a metaphorical one 3. interaction: two thoughts of a thing, active together and supported by the same word or phrase
Views of metaphor classical: decoration romantic: vehicle of truth, essence of language Shelley: language is vitally metaphorical surprise effect A. Breton: game of surrealists everything can be redescribed in terms of something else
Cognitive theory of metaphor metaphors cannot be retranslated, they acquire new meaning “a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars” (Aristotle)
Metaphor ~ model model: a hypothesis that tries to break down an inadequate interpretation by means of fiction new idea - metaphor the unknown is described through the known
Nietzsche about metaphor language is not about truth, but our relationship to the world, we only have metaphors, tropes concepts are not the origin but the residue of metaphors truths are illusions
Reliteralisation man: metaphorical animal is all language figurative?
I. A. Richards no proper meanings the constancy of meaning is the constancy of context (meaning is carried by the text) words: general categories language is prosopopoeia, catachresis
Other tropes simile, Synecdoche, prosopopoeia, allegory, symbol, synaesthesia, oxymoron, paradox, zeugma, euphemism, metonymy
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