Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning
The Classical Origins of a Modern Metaphor
Verbs and nouns of meaning in ancient Greek and Latin are polysemous, just as in the case of the English verb “to mean". Andreas T. Zanker considers how the ancient vocabulary could be used in different ways and investigates its development over time. In the first part of the book, Zanker argues for the role of metaphorical and metonymical transference in the creation of expressions of meaning; Greek and Roman authors used the same verbs to describe what inanimate things, including words a...
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Verben und Substantive des Bedeutens sind mehrdeutig auf Altgriechisch und Latein. Andreas T. Zanker überlegt, wie das antike Vokabular in unterschiedlicher Weise benutzt werden konnte, und untersucht seine Entwicklung im Laufe der Zeit. Im ersten Teil des Buches argumentiert Zanker für die Rolle von metaphorischer und metonymischer Übertragung bei der Entstehung von Ausdrücken des Bedeutens; griechische und römische Schriftsteller benutzten die gleichen Verben, um die Bedeutungen von unbe...
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- Publisher : C.H.Beck
- Series : Zetemata | 151
- Place of publication : München
- Year of publication : 2016
- Published on OpenEdition Books : 05 octobre 2017
- EAN (Print version) : 978-3-406-68845-4
- Electronic EAN : 978-2-8218-9710-6
- DOI : 10.4000/books.chbeck.1609
- Number of pages : 274 p.
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- About the author
Verbs and nouns of meaning in ancient Greek and Latin are polysemous, just as in the case of the English verb “to mean". Andreas T. Zanker considers how the ancient vocabulary could be used in different ways and investigates its development over time. In the first part of the book, Zanker argues for the role of metaphorical and metonymical transference in the creation of expressions of meaning; Greek and Roman authors used the same verbs to describe what inanimate things, including words and texts, meant/signified as they did of human beings in the act of meaning/signifying something. In the second part of the book, the author focuses on certain metaphorical extensions of this vocabulary and argues that they have implications for modern discussions of meaning, particularly in literary criticism.
Verben und Substantive des Bedeutens sind mehrdeutig auf Altgriechisch und Latein. Andreas T. Zanker überlegt, wie das antike Vokabular in unterschiedlicher Weise benutzt werden konnte, und untersucht seine Entwicklung im Laufe der Zeit. Im ersten Teil des Buches argumentiert Zanker für die Rolle von metaphorischer und metonymischer Übertragung bei der Entstehung von Ausdrücken des Bedeutens; griechische und römische Schriftsteller benutzten die gleichen Verben, um die Bedeutungen von unbelebten Gegenständen (einschließlich Wörtern und Texten) wie auch die Absichten und Intentionen von Menschen zu artikulieren. Im zweiten Teil des Buches fokussiert der Autor auf gewisse metaphorische Ausdehnungen des Wortschatzes und behauptet, dass sie Implikationen für moderne Diskussionen über Bedeutung haben – insbesondere in der Literaturwissenschaft und Philologie.
Andreas T. Zanker is Assistant Professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
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Chapter 1: The Polysemy of Expressions of Meaning
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Chapter 2: Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning (I)
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Chapter 3: Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning (II)
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Chapter 4: Metaphor, Polysemy, and Meaning Extension
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Chapter 5: Evidence from Early Greek Poetry
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Chapter 6: The Metaphor of text = person
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Chapter 7: The Metonymy of author for text
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Chapter 8: The Classical Metaphors for Metaphor
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Chapter 9: Expressions of Meaning and Modern Literary Criticism
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Appendix I: Expressions of Inanimate Signification in Herodotus
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Appendix II: Further Nouns of Meaning
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Appendix III: Ancient Theories of Meaning
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