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Aspects of Metaphor in Physics
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With reference to copious case studies, this book attempts to give a broad and comprehensive view of the multiplicity of forms taken by metaphor in physics. A diachronic presentation of the views hitherto advanced on the role of metaphor in the natural sciences provides an introduction to the crucial issues. By means of a broad definition of metaphor as a lexical, semantic, and conceptual phenomenon, metaphor is identified at various levels of physics discourse: in metatheory and methodology; in the sociology of the origin and evolution of science; in theory and conceptualization, including physics models; in education; and finally in linguistic expression, including terminology. Whereas historians and theoreticians of science reduce the question of metaphor in physics to the question of the role of scientific models, where one area of physics provides concepts and structures for another area, the perspective adopted here is that of cognitive semantics. The study inquires into the way in which concept-formation and terminology in physics avails itself of the metaphoric bent immanent in everyday language, conceptualizing abstract ideas in spatial terms, inanimate things as intelligent, measurable phenomena in terms of the visual. Attention is also given to the way in which metaphoric processes make it possible to integrate new knowledge into old and sometimes obsolete structures rather than eliminating those structures altogether.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- Sprache Englisch
- Titel Aspects of Metaphor in Physics
- Veröffentlichung 08.11.1999
- ISBN 3484304073
- Format Fester Einband
- EAN 9783484304079
- Jahr 1999
- Größe H236mm x B160mm x T28mm
- Autor Hanna Pulaczewska
- Untertitel Examples and Case Studies
- Gewicht 678g
- Auflage Reprint 2011
- Genre Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
- Lesemotiv Verstehen
- Anzahl Seiten 312
- Herausgeber De Gruyter
- GTIN 09783484304079
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