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

• Published in: Limbaj si context Vol. 7; no. 2; p. 1
• Main Author: Boghian, Ioana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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
• ISSN: 1857-4149

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.