Metaphor, concept formation, and esthetic semeiosis in a Peircean perspective
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Bent Sørensen
Bent Sørensen (b. 1971). His research interests include the normative sciences of C. S. Peirce, and the semiotics of metaphor. His publications include ‘Making the knowledge profile of C. S. Peirce's concept of esthetics’ (with T. Thellefsen, 2004); and ‘The ethics of inquiry’ (with T. Thellefsen, 2005).
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Torkild Thellefsen
Torkild Leo Thellefsen (b. 1969). His research interests include pragmatic semeiotics, knowledge organization, and branding (from a semeiotic perspective). His recent publications include ‘The fundamental sign’ (2004); ‘Knowledge profiling: The basis for knowledge Organization’ (2004); ‘Making the knowledge profile of C. S. Peirce's concept of esthetics’ (with Bent Sorensen, 2004); and ‘Charles S. Peirce's ethics of terminology revisited’ (2004).
Abstract
We investigate how C. S. Peirce's theory of metaphor can provide us with an insight into concept formation. It is interesting that Peirce does not write much about the metaphor; still his suggestion that the basic mechanism of metaphor is that of parallelism is very interesting. This seems to suggest that metaphor is important to Peirce however, not as a poetical adornment but as a special branch of abduction and as a basic esthetic element that pushes science forward towards the esthetic ideal: growth in concrete reasonableness.
About the authors
Bent Sørensen (b. 1971). His research interests include the normative sciences of C. S. Peirce, and the semiotics of metaphor. His publications include ‘Making the knowledge profile of C. S. Peirce's concept of esthetics’ (with T. Thellefsen, 2004); and ‘The ethics of inquiry’ (with T. Thellefsen, 2005).
Torkild Leo Thellefsen (b. 1969). His research interests include pragmatic semeiotics, knowledge organization, and branding (from a semeiotic perspective). His recent publications include ‘The fundamental sign’ (2004); ‘Knowledge profiling: The basis for knowledge Organization’ (2004); ‘Making the knowledge profile of C. S. Peirce's concept of esthetics’ (with Bent Sorensen, 2004); and ‘Charles S. Peirce's ethics of terminology revisited’ (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
