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A01=Ralf Norrman
Author_Jon Haarberg
Author_Ralf Norrman
Casual Allusion
Cat Barks
Category=DS
Category=DSA
Category=DSB
Chiastic Inversion
cultural anthropology
Die Sprache Spricht
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External Corroboration
Female Of The Species
folklore studies
Jonah's Gourd
Kreutzer Sonata
Kunta Kinte
Labial Consonants
Lagenaria Siceraria
Language
literary metaphors
Literature
Maximal Appropriateness
Melon Rind
Metalanguage
Moomin Troll
Mrs Nickleby
Natural Human Reactions
Nature
plant symbolism
Pumpkin Shell
Real World Object
Real World Rules
semiotic analysis of cucurbit metaphors
Semiotic Matrix
Semiotic Role
semiotics
signification theory
Theory
Watermelon Sugar
Yellow Rats
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138683419
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jan 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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There exists an area of overlap where language and nature meet, and this book, first published in 1980, illuminates that fascinating territory. When real-world things, such as plants, are used in literature or language as symbols, these special signs have a double allegiance. They function as language but derive their meaning from nature. The authors trace the consequences of this, and show how it affects the character of the relevant areas of language and literature.
Original and entertaining, this study cuts across a number of traditional disciplines. It should appeal not only to those interested in literature, language and semiotics, but also to students of philosophy, anthropology, classics, pictorial art, religion and folklore.
