THE METAPHOR OF THE 'HOUSE AS TEXT' IN VICTORIAN NOVELS METAFORA 'CASEI CA TEXT' IN ROMANE VICTORIENE

After the poetic metaphor (of the Aristotelic and classical rhetoric schools), and the linguistic metaphor (belonging to the historical linguistics and the philosophy of language), the metaphor has turned into a central topos in epistemology (M. Black, 1962; P. Ricoeur, 1975; T. van Dijk, 1975; J. M...

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Published inLimbaj si context Vol. 7; no. 2; p. 1
Main Author Boghian, Ioana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Balti Universitatea de Stat "Alecu Russo" din, Balti 01.07.2015
Subjects
Argumentation
Diachronic linguistics
English literature
Indirect speech acts
Injustice
Metaphor
Novels
Philosophy of language
Political representation
Rhetoric
Semiotics
Signs
Speech acts
Victorian period
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Summary:After the poetic metaphor (of the Aristotelic and classical rhetoric schools), and the linguistic metaphor (belonging to the historical linguistics and the philosophy of language), the metaphor has turned into a central topos in epistemology (M. Black, 1962; P. Ricoeur, 1975; T. van Dijk, 1975; J. Molino, 1979a, 1979b; A. Ortony, 1979 apud Roventa- Frumusani, 2000); the metaphor has ceased, on the one hand, to be a poetic myth, becoming an explanatory principle in science (also in Johansen and Larsen, 2002) and, on the other hand, to restrict itself only to the lexical level, in order to enter the field of discourse theory (in argumentation through Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca's neo-rhetoric, in the speech acts theory with T. van Dijk, in implicit and indirect speech acts theory with J. Searle and Kerbrat-Orecchioni). Our intention is to shape the metaphorical references of such a statement as "the house is a text" and find out the effects that such an association of terms has when applied to 19th-century English novels and characters.
ISSN:1857-4149