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Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence /
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transp...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford [England] :
Berghahn Books,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction
- Charon's Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral Imagination; Part I
- Persons as Vehicles; Chapter 1
- Living Canoes: Vehicles of Popular Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 2
- Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goffman and the Analysis of Traffic Rules; Part II
- Vehicles as Gendered Persons; Chapter 3
- ""It's Not an Airplane, It's My Baby"": Using a Gender Metaphor to Make Sense of Old Warplanes in North America.
- Chapter 4
- Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars? Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary JapanPart III
- Equivocal Vehicles; Chapter 5
- Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fica as a Vehicle for Social Commentary and Ritual Restoration of Innocence; Chapter 6
- ""Let's Go F.B.!"": Metaphors of Cars and Corruption in China; Chapter 7
- Barrio Metaxis: Ambivalent Aesthetics in Mexican-American Lowrider Cars; Chapter 8
- Driving into the Light: Traversing Life and Death in a Lynching Reenactment by African-Americans; Afterword
- Quo Vadis?; Contributors.