Peircean Metaphor Reexamined: Creation, Function and Interpretation

• Authors: Shirmahaleh Shekoufeh Mohammadi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Peircean iconic metaphor takes the concept of metaphor beyond linguistic and literary metaphors and does not even limit it to the “conventional metaphor” of Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive theory. Given Peirce’s short and somewhat ambiguous definition of the metaphorical icon, a closer study of this category of icons is necessary for a better understanding of a concept that surpasses in many respects the earlier definitions of metaphor. It is also necessary to observe metaphors from the perspective of their creator: a perspective that is not usually adopted in other theories of metaphor, since much of the debates consider only the structure of the metaphor and its function with a focus on its interpretation, and do not discuss how the creator of the metaphor reaches or creates a metaphor. The present article aims at filling the mentioned blanks.

Keywords

EN

Charles Sanders Peirce; iconic metaphor; final interpretation; iconicity.

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 7/1
• Pages: 35-54

Contributors

author

Shirmahaleh Shekoufeh Mohammadi

• Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Maestro Mario de la Cueva S/N, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Coyoacan, CDMX, Mexico.