Metaphor is founded in the logic of otherness and excess and involves a movement of displacement that leads sense outside the sphere of the same, the commonplace, plain meaning...
Keywords: metaphor, critical reasoning, modeling, linguistic creativity, iconicity, semioethics
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterIn this paper, experiential discourse iconicity is examined, shown to be useful in practical studies of planetary exploration and aviation safety, and related to the structure of language...
Keywords: iconicity, discourse, experience, Structure, Association, Campbell
01/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThe syntax-semantics interface is iconic in that it maps syntactic asymmetries (in particular, unilateral c-command) onto semantic asymmetries (scope relations)...
Keywords: syntax-semantics interface, iconicity, underspecification formalism, modification
06/2006 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de Gruyter