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Tropical truth(s) : the epistemology of metaphor and other tropes /
The 18 contributions to this volume deal with a variety of 'tropes', such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, euphemism, antonomasia and hyperbole. Using various approaches or paradigms, the authors aim to find an answer to crucial epistemological questions, namely whether and to wha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The 18 contributions to this volume deal with a variety of 'tropes', such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, euphemism, antonomasia and hyperbole. Using various approaches or paradigms, the authors aim to find an answer to crucial epistemological questions, namely whether and to what extent utterances containing tropes can be said to be true or false. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 427 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110230215 3110230216 3110230208 9783110230208 1282716115 9781282716117 9786612716119 6612716118 |