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By Armin Burkhardt,Brigitte Nerlich

ISBN-10: 3110230208

ISBN-13: 9783110230208

Tropes aren't purely rhetorical capacity, that are used as an artistic and / or persuasive linguistic skill in poetry and public speech. also they are a cognitive software which is helping humans to appreciate the area and to precise their international. As they're the foundation on which our worldview or even our daily speech is based, the query needs to be posed to whether utterances containing tropes should be acknowledged to be real. This has been an epistemological challenge due to the fact that Nietzsche expressed his doubts in regards to the chance that figurative language may perhaps provide entry to fact. notwithstanding, seeing that then examine has paid little realization to this question. ‑18 papers through linguists, philosophers, psychologists and literary students were gathered during this quantity. Their 21 authors use a variety of techniques or paradigms with a view to outline metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, euphemism, antonomasia and hyperbole and locate a solution to the an important epistemological questions, particularly even if and to what volume utterances containing tropes may be stated to be real or false.

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