
Title:
Aspects of Metaphor in Physics : Examples and Case Studies
Author:
Pulaczewska, Hanna, author.
ISBN:
9783110915938
Edition:
Reprint 2011
Physical Description:
1 online resource (301 p.)
Series:
Linguistische Arbeiten , 407
Contents:
I-X -- 1. Introduction -- Part One: The notion of metaphor and its relation to the discourse of physics -- 2. Approaches to metaphor: past and present -- 3. Identifying metaphor in physical science: sorts, functions, and related concepts -- Part Two: Metaphors in physics -- 4. Underlying metaphors of everyday thought in meta-theory and the concept formation of physics -- 5. World theories in meta-theory and the concept formation -- 6. Stipulative reference extension -- 7. Assimilative metaphor -- 8. Theory-constitutive and educational metaphors -- 9. Metaphor and style: "figures of speech" in the language of physics -- 10. Transfer of denotations in the terminology of physics -- 11. Thoughts and conclusions -- References
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