Introduction
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Frank Nuessel
Frank Nuessel (b. 1943). His research interests include semiotics, metaphor research, Vico studies, gerontology, and Hispanic linguistics. His major publications include
The Semiotics of Ageism (1992);The Imaginative Basis of Thought and Culture (with Marcel Danesi, 1994);The Esperanto Language (2000);Linguistic Approaches to Hispanic Literature (2000); andLiterary Commentary in the Literature of Spain (with Aristofanes Cedeno, 2004).
Abstract
This special issue of Semiotica, titled Perspectives on Metaphor, presents a series of papers on this timely subject. The call for papers for this issue was issued in fall of 2004 with a final submission date of fall of 2005, a date which coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of George Lako and Mark Johnson's (1980) landmark work Metaphors We Live By. Thus, it is no surprise that this work is cited in several of the essays in this volume. That volume reinvigorated scholarly research on metaphor as evidenced by the fact that there now exist several volumes that consist entirely of annotated citations of studies of metaphor (Noppen et al. 1985; Noppen and Hols 1990; Knop et al. 2005), as well as Shibles' (1971) earlier and now classic annotated bibliography.
About the author
Frank Nuessel (b. 1943). His research interests include semiotics, metaphor research, Vico studies, gerontology, and Hispanic linguistics. His major publications include The Semiotics of Ageism (1992); The Imaginative Basis of Thought and Culture (with Marcel Danesi, 1994); The Esperanto Language (2000); Linguistic Approaches to Hispanic Literature (2000); and Literary Commentary in the Literature of Spain (with Aristofanes Cedeno, 2004).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- The literal, the metaphorical, and the price of semiotics: An essay on philosophy of language and the doctrine of signs
- Meaning, metaphor, and interpretation: Modeling new worlds
- Creation: Algorithmic, organicist, or emergent metaphorical process?
- The stuff metaphor is made on
- The sense implication hypothesis and idealized cognitive models
- Metaphor, concept formation, and esthetic semeiosis in a Peircean perspective
- A review of prominent theories of metaphor and metaphorical reference revisited
- Metaphor and poetic logic in Vico
- Yuri Lotman on metaphors and culture as self-referential semiospheres
- Metaphors we teach by: An embodied cognitive analysis of No Child Left Behind
- Learning theories as metaphorical discourse: Reflections on second language learning and constructivist epistemology
- Basic kinds of iconic metaphor in the theatre and other iconic arts
- Approaches to metaphor: Structure, classifications, cognate phenomena
- Metaphors we die by
- Waterproof fire stations? Conceptual schemata and cognitive operations involved in compound constructions
Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- The literal, the metaphorical, and the price of semiotics: An essay on philosophy of language and the doctrine of signs
- Meaning, metaphor, and interpretation: Modeling new worlds
- Creation: Algorithmic, organicist, or emergent metaphorical process?
- The stuff metaphor is made on
- The sense implication hypothesis and idealized cognitive models
- Metaphor, concept formation, and esthetic semeiosis in a Peircean perspective
- A review of prominent theories of metaphor and metaphorical reference revisited
- Metaphor and poetic logic in Vico
- Yuri Lotman on metaphors and culture as self-referential semiospheres
- Metaphors we teach by: An embodied cognitive analysis of No Child Left Behind
- Learning theories as metaphorical discourse: Reflections on second language learning and constructivist epistemology
- Basic kinds of iconic metaphor in the theatre and other iconic arts
- Approaches to metaphor: Structure, classifications, cognate phenomena
- Metaphors we die by
- Waterproof fire stations? Conceptual schemata and cognitive operations involved in compound constructions
