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dc.title | The Facilitating Relationship between Metaphor and Rationality | |
dc.contributor.author | TAY ZHIMING DENNIS | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-08T11:08:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-04-08T11:08:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-01-21 | |
dc.identifier.citation | TAY ZHIMING DENNIS (2009-01-21). The Facilitating Relationship between Metaphor and Rationality. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/16700 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis theorizes the relationship between conceptual metaphors (Lakoff 1993) and the idea of rationality. Based on suggestions that metaphorical reasoning strongly challenges b objectivistb accounts of rationality (Lakoff 1987, Indurkhya 2007), I claim that metaphors, though neither necessary nor sufficient, can be strategically employed in knowledge/belief systems to facilitate the fulfillment of a working set of rationality criteria. Initially observing that rationality is often conflated with scientificity (Harris 2005, Dawkins 2006), I advocate more schematic criteria which emphasize notions such as internal consistency instead (cf. Weber 1922, Elster 1983). I then analyze the Chinese divinatory system of BaZi and its facilitatory employment of b elementsb as source domain. Future research directions are provided, including a prototype-based approach (Rosch, 1973) to rationality, and investigating how rationality criteria are themselves metaphorical. Finally, implications of my research on issues like the reliability of rational knowledge and metaphor-metonymy interaction in relation to rationality are discussed. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | conceptual metaphor, rationality, Ba Zi, metonymy, homology, human cognition | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.department | ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE | |
dc.contributor.supervisor | ABRAHAM, SUNITA A | |
dc.description.degree | Master's | |
dc.description.degreeconferred | MASTER OF ARTS | |
dc.identifier.isiut | NOT_IN_WOS | |
Appears in Collections: | Master's Theses (Open) |
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