Neorealism, Metonymy, and the Question of Contingency

Claviez, Thomas (2022). Neorealism, Metonymy, and the Question of Contingency. In: Mathieson, Jolene; Henderson, Marius; Lange, Julia (eds.) The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillenial U.S.-American Writing. Anglia Book Series: Vol. 79 (pp. 129-146). Berlin: De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110771350-009

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Since the publication of Roman Jakobson's famous 1956 essay "Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances," we have tended to read the relationship between metaphor and metonymy in dialectical terms. This essay argues that this assumption stands in need of revision, since metonymy as a trope - and as a trope for contingency - undermines the dialectical relationship between the syntagmatic and the paradigmatic axes.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Literary Theory

UniBE Contributor:

Claviez, Thomas

Subjects:

800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures
400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages
100 Philosophy > 190 Modern western philosophy
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 810 American literature in English

ISSN:

0340-5435

ISBN:

978-3-11-077128-2

Series:

Anglia Book Series

Publisher:

De Gruyter

Language:

English

Submitter:

Thomas Claviez

Date Deposited:

03 Nov 2022 10:23

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:27

Publisher DOI:

10.1515/9783110771350-009

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Metaphor, Metonymy, Dialectics

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/174459

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174459

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