| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Examples of f2 transforms |
| Posted by: | John Schertzer |
| Date/Time: | 15/01/2004 20:45:16 |
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"I would say metaphor's use the logical rules that govern the meaning of a set of words to create cross comparisons in other contexts. Its the tranferance of these rules in the meaning making process of language, that gives metaphors their power and potency IMHO" First of all, a metaphor doesn't have to have an isomorphic relationship to anything else, or rather it doesn't need to be analogical, only analogies need to be, and that's only one sort of metaphor. Secondly, if there is an isomorphic relationship, it has little to do with the logic of language, but the personal logic of the listener while going through transderivational search. In fact the whole idea of isomorphism, which I believe is what you mean by "cross comparisons," is only an hallucination of certain NLPers. If you see parallels (analogies), that's because you created those parallels through a process that is no more logical than biological processes. Also, if metaphor relied on logical language structures, Ericksonian tasking would be uneffective. best, JS |