Metaphor and the Dynamics of KnowledgeThis book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge. It is of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike. |
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... Metaphor analysis from 'above', from 'below', and from 'in between' Metaphor analyses of knowledge dynamics 3. 'Struggle ... transfer – discursive order out of/within chaos? 6. Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge Struggle, Kuhn, and ...
... Metaphor analysis from 'above', from 'below', and from 'in between' Metaphor analyses of knowledge dynamics 3. 'Struggle ... transfer – discursive order out of/within chaos? 6. Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge Struggle, Kuhn, and ...
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... many different discourses. One such prototypical unit is ready at hand, well-known in the realm of poetry and rhetoric: we think of the trope called metaphor.8 Since antiquity, the term metaphor has denoted the transfer of.
... many different discourses. One such prototypical unit is ready at hand, well-known in the realm of poetry and rhetoric: we think of the trope called metaphor.8 Since antiquity, the term metaphor has denoted the transfer of.
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Sabine Maasen, Peter Weingart. Since antiquity, the term metaphor has denoted the transfer of a concept endowed with a meaning derived from a specific context to another context, where it unfolds its 'transferred' meaning. This transfer ...
Sabine Maasen, Peter Weingart. Since antiquity, the term metaphor has denoted the transfer of a concept endowed with a meaning derived from a specific context to another context, where it unfolds its 'transferred' meaning. This transfer ...
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Contents
Metaphors as targets and tools in the analysis of knowledge dynamics | |
selection retention and extinction of a metaphor | |
Of paradigms shifts and changes the Kuhnian metaphor | |
the career of chaos as a metaphor | |
Chaos in contemporary social science discourses | |
Metaphor transfer discursive order out ofwithin chaos? | |
Metaphors and the dynamics of knowledge | |
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