Open AccessMetaphor and narrative
Author(s) -
Marina Grishakova
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
sign systems studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1736-7409
pISSN - 1406-4243
DOI - 10.12697/sss.2001.29.2.06
Subject(s) - metaphor , narrative , iconicity , representation (politics) , linguistics , literal and figurative language , interpretation (philosophy) , trope (literature) , perspective (graphical) , realism , consciousness , cognitive science , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , art , politics , political science , law , visual arts
The paper examines linguistic, cognitive, communicative approaches to metaphor and its functioning in the narrative text. Special attention is paid to the problem of iconicity and the Wingensteinian notion of "aspect seeing" as relevant to the metaphor srudies. It is shown that the extended understanding of metaphor as "trope" or "figure" in the post-structuralist literary theory allows to see metaphor as a textual "interpretation machine". In the process of interaction of narrative and figurative patterns, metaphor functions as a means of perspectivization, i.e. representation of consciousness. In the literary text, perspective changes permanently and the subsequent configurations have an impact on the previous ones: there occurs a permanent "feedback" and correlation.