EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: From Darwin to Dawkins

• Authors: Drogosz Anna

Title variants

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EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY: From Darwin to Dawkins

• Languages of publication: PL RU EN DE

Abstracts

EN

The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of the metaphor EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY in the text of its original appearance (Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species) and its later developments (texts by Richard Dawkins). An analysis of selected examples allows a conclusion that EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IS A JOURNEY is a theoryconstitutive metaphor for evolutionism. The paper also proposes an extended understanding of the whole concept of theory-constitutive metaphor.

Keywords

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metaphor in science; evolutionism; journey metaphor

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Acta Neophilologica
• Year: 2013
• Issue: XV/2
• Pages: 19-29

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Drogosz Anna

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

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1509-1619