Abstract
Charles Peirce provided a few, but interesting we believe, remarks about metaphor. Aristotle on the other hand developed a theory of metaphor that, to this day has been, and still is, influential (even though his theory, especially within recent years, also has been heavily criticized, e.g., by Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors we live by. Chicago: Chicago University Press). Factor, Lance R. 1996. Peirce’s definition of metaphor and its consequences. In Vincent Colapietro & Thomas Olshewsky (eds.), Peirce’s doctrine of signs: Theory, applications, and connections, 229–235. Berlin/New York: Mouton De Gruyter, as one of very few scholars, makes a comparison between Peirce and Aristotle. Factor claims that Peirce’s definition of metaphor and its consequences undermine and overturn Aristotle’s theory. We do not believe that Factor is right; and this is due to Factor’s misinterpretation of key elements within Aristotle’s theory. We rather believe that Peirce and Aristotle, in fact, have central ideas in common concerning metaphor; perhaps, in particular, when it comes to the function of metaphor. Hence, both see, for example, metaphor as a cognitive mechanism. The article tries to develop this argument.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Re charged emblems: Hawthorne and semiotic metamorphics
- The spectrum of subjectal forms: Towards an Integral Semiotics
- Peirce, Aristotle, metaphor – and comments to Factor
- Charles Peirce and firstness: The category of origins
- Image and word as forms of iconic depiction
- Embodied ekphrasis of experience: Bodily rhetoric in mediating affect in interaction
- Semeiotic time
- “In my head, I have a cleaning lady:” Symbol form and symbolic intention in the everyday use of money
- The form of the traditional bamboo house in the Makassar culture: A cultural semiotic study
- Garroni, the late Peirce, and the issue of creativity
- Collocational semiosis in the academic discourse of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): The case of AFRICA
- Book Review
- In the footsteps of the semiotic school of Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow: Evaluations and perspectives