000 05026nam a22005775i 4500
001 250850
003 IT-RoAPU
005 20230501183600.0
006 m|||||o||d||||||||
007 cr || ||||||||
008 230228t20111999gw fo d z eng d
020 _a9783484304079
_qprint
020 _a9783110915938
_qPDF
024 7 _a10.1515/9783110915938
_2doi
035 _a(DE-B1597)9783110915938
035 _a(DE-B1597)45628
035 _a(OCoLC)979831001
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
_erda
050 4 _aP301.5.M48 P85 1999
_bP85 1999
072 7 _aLAN009000
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a530.014
_a530.14
_a530/.1/4
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPulaczewska, Hanna
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAspects of Metaphor in Physics :
_bExamples and Case Studies /
_cHanna Pulaczewska.
250 _aReprint 2011
264 1 _aTübingen :
_bMax Niemeyer Verlag,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©1999
300 _a1 online resource (301 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 0 _aLinguistische Arbeiten ,
_x0344-6727 ;
_v407
505 0 0 _tI-X --
_t1. Introduction --
_tPart One: The notion of metaphor and its relation to the discourse of physics --
_t2. Approaches to metaphor: past and present --
_t3. Identifying metaphor in physical science: sorts, functions, and related concepts --
_tPart Two: Metaphors in physics --
_t4. Underlying metaphors of everyday thought in meta-theory and the concept formation of physics --
_t5. World theories in meta-theory and the concept formation --
_t6. Stipulative reference extension --
_t7. Assimilative metaphor --
_t8. Theory-constitutive and educational metaphors --
_t9. Metaphor and style: “figures of speech” in the language of physics --
_t10. Transfer of denotations in the terminology of physics --
_t11. Thoughts and conclusions --
_tReferences
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aFor decades there has been awareness of the fact that the natural sciences and the language they use are not metaphor-free domains. This study draws together statements on this phenomenon made in a discourse context hitherto dominated by theoreticians and philosophers of science and points up new perspectives of an interdisciplinary nature discussed here primarily from the viewpoint of cognitive semantics. How do metaphors enter into a discourse with physics? To what extent are the methods used and the issues addressed in physics influenced by metaphors? How do the ubiquitous metaphors of everyday language help us to impose a structure on physics knowledge and express abstract ideas in concrete images? These and other related issues are discussed with reference to copious examples.
520 _aWith reference to copious case studies, this book attempts to give a broad and comprehensive view of the multiplicity of forms taken by metaphor in physics. A diachronic presentation of the views hitherto advanced on the role of metaphor in the natural sciences provides an introduction to the crucial issues. By means of a broad definition of metaphor as a lexical, semantic, and conceptual phenomenon, metaphor is identified at various levels of physics discourse: in metatheory and methodology; in the sociology of the origin and evolution of science; in theory and conceptualization, including physics models; in education; and finally in linguistic expression, including terminology. Whereas historians and theoreticians of science reduce the question of metaphor in physics to the question of the role of scientific models, where one area of physics provides concepts and structures for another area, the perspective adopted here is that of cognitive semantics. The study inquires into the way in which concept-formation and terminology in physics avails itself of the metaphoric bent immanent in everyday language, conceptualizing abstract ideas in spatial terms, inanimate things as intelligent, measurable phenomena in terms of the visual. Attention is also given to the way in which metaphoric processes make it possible to integrate new knowledge into old and sometimes obsolete structures rather than eliminating those structures altogether.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
650 0 _aMetaphor.
650 0 _aPhysics
_xLanguage.
650 0 _aScience
_xLanguage.
650 7 _aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
_2bisacsh
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110915938
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110915938
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110915938/original
942 _cEB
999 _c250850
_d250850