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The Social Use of Metaphor : Essays on the Anthropology of Rhetoric / J. Christopher Crocker, J. David Sapir.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1977Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812277258
  • 9781512806632
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.2/1
LOC classification:
  • PN228.M4
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Anatomy of Metaphor -- Chapter 2. The Social Functions of Rhetorical Forms -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. Saying Haya Sayings: Two Categories of Proverb Use -- Chapter 4. The Performance of Ritual Metaphors -- Chapter 5. Carrying the Village: Cuna Political Metaphors -- Chapter 6. My Brother the Parrot -- Chapter 7. The Fabricated Child -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512806632

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Anatomy of Metaphor -- Chapter 2. The Social Functions of Rhetorical Forms -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. Saying Haya Sayings: Two Categories of Proverb Use -- Chapter 4. The Performance of Ritual Metaphors -- Chapter 5. Carrying the Village: Cuna Political Metaphors -- Chapter 6. My Brother the Parrot -- Chapter 7. The Fabricated Child -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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Through the use of language, as symbolic action, man attempts to control his social, natural, and supernatural environments. In this book J. David Sapir, J. Christopher Crocker, and their fellow contributors investigate the nature of metaphor and related symbolic forms as a means of coming to terms with the world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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