1st Edition
Two Dimensions of Meaning Similarity and Contiguity in Metaphor and Metonymy, Language, Culture, and Ecology
0. Introduction: the similarity/contiguity distinction and an outline of the book.
1. The two dimensions: similarity and contiguity in metaphor and metonymy
2. The prevalence of metaphor and metonymy and their interplay
3. The Development of Language in two Dimensions of Meaning.
4. Corpus linguistics, collocation and lexical priming
5. The syntagmatic contiguity of metonymy in grammar and narrative.
6. Nouns and noun phrases: the similarity dimension, classification, quantification and commodification.
7. Nouns and the similarity mode: classification, taxonomies, paradigms and measurement in science and mathematics.
8. Resisting noun-based classification and scientific universals in sociology, linguistics, philosophy and poetry
9. Process and interrelatedness in quantum physics and Blackfoot, a language without nouns.
10. Feyerabend and Conquest of abundance: abstraction versus the richness of being
11. Conclusion (1): Evaluating the two dimensions
12. Conclusion (2): interplay, synthesis, and the need for diverse metaphors
Appendix1. Metaphor themes associated with the canonical event schema: CHANGE IS MOVEMENT, ACTIVITY IS MOVEMENT FORWARDS etc.
Appendix 2. Lexical details of the EMOTION IS SENSE IMPRESSION nexus.
Biography
Andrew Goatly has had a long academic career in the UK, Rwanda, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong, where he remains an Honorary Professor at Lingnan University. His books include The Language of Metaphors (Routledge 1997, 2011), Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age (Routledge 2000, 2016), Washing the Brain (2007), Explorations in Stylistics (2008), and Meaning and Humour (2012). He is now semi-retired in Canterbury, Kent, UK, an active member of the Green Party, and a keen amateur singer.
