Required reading for Nick (it's metaphors all the way down, you fuckers) *Metaphor, A Practical Introduction,* 2nd Edition, by Zoltan Kovecses.
TOC 1-What is Metaphor 2-Common Source and Target Domains 3-Kinds of Metaphor 4-Metaphor in Literature 5-Nonlinguistic Realizations of Conceptual Metaphors 6-The Basis of Metaphor 7-The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Mappings 8 Cognitive Models, Metaphors, and Embodiment 9- Metaphorical Entailments 10-The Scope of Metaphor 11-Metaphor Systems 12:Another Figure: Metonymy 13-Ther Universality of Conceptual Metaphors 14-Cultural Variation in Metaphor and Metonymy 15-Metaphor, Metonymy, and and Idioms 16-Metaphor and Metonymy in the Study of Langauage 17-Metaphor and Blends 18-Metaphor in Discourse 19-How Dopes All This Hang Together? davew On Mon, Nov 1, 2021, at 10:55 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Ahem. Speaking as the “Dean” (oldest surviving member) of this distinguished > mostly geriatric community, I think respect goes both ways, or it goes > nowhere. So, those of us who seek to command respect must be prepared to > give it, particularly to such memes as OK Boomer, which I think expresses > quite aptly an impatience with anybody who asserts old knowledge just because > it is old. I, of course, am Pre-boomer, a Silent. If a meme were started, > “Be silent, Silent!” I would resist it (obviously) but I sure as hell would > respect it, and try to mine it for its implicit content. > > I quite like my status as Dean, by the way. When FRIAM is given a collective > Nobel, I expect to lead you all into the celebratory dinner, bearing our > staff in my crooked hand, shuffling along in my bedroom slippers, my shirt > untucked from my honorific belt, muttering over and over again, “Metaphor > all the way down, you fuckers!” > > By the way, Jon, it’s funny to see you take so stridently a “youthist” > position, you, who have perhaps more than any other, sought to support and > harvest value from the fading *eminences grises* amongst us. Still. Point > taken. > > Oh, and, Glen: thanks for collecting the products of the firehose into > puddles. Otherwise I would surely have drowned. > > Nick > > Nick Thompson > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Jon Zingale > *Sent:* Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:23 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers > > > "Memes can spread as if they are amplified, for instance the stupid 'Let's > Go, Brandon' meme or the dull 'OK Boomer' reply." > > Well, it certainly is your thread to bend. My feeling is that corrosion and > destruction can often arise as part of a creative process. Age demographics > in politics in the United States, to my view, are pretty off balance. My > personal plan is to help cultivate a different one. Nothing against old > people, of course, but in the next elections I plan to rank choice not by > party but simply by age. > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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