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Aspects of Metaphor in Physics : Examples and Case Studies.
For decades there has been awareness of the fact that the natural sciences and the language they use are not metaphor-free domains. This study draws together statements on this phenomenon made in a discourse context hitherto dominated by theoreticians and philosophers of science and points up new pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
1999.
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| Colección: | Linguistische Arbeiten.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 1. Introduction
- Part One: The notion of metaphor and its relation to the discourse of physics
- 2. Approaches to metaphor: past and present
- 3. Identifying metaphor in physical science: sorts, functions, and related concepts
- Part Two: Metaphors in physics
- 4. Underlying metaphors of everyday thought in meta-theory and the concept formation of physics
- 5. World theories in meta-theory and the concept formation
- 6. Stipulative reference extension
- 7. Assimilative metaphor
- 8. Theory-constitutive and educational metaphors
- 9. Metaphor and style: "figures of speech" in the language of physics
- 10. Transfer of denotations in the terminology of physics
- 11. Thoughts and conclusions
- References