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Functions of key metaphors in early Quaker sermons, 1671–1700
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For seventeenth-century Quakers, metaphor transcended its traditional function as ornament and became the conceptual underpinning of discourse as discussed by the authors, and metaphors were used in Quaker sermons.Abstract:
For seventeenth‐century Quakers, metaphor transcended its traditional function as ornament and became the conceptual underpinning of discourse. This essay focuses on how metaphors were used in Quaker sermons. The first part of the essay describes, illustrates, and analyzes five key metaphor clusters found in Quaker sermons: (1) the Light/Dark cluster; (2) the Voice cluster; (3) the Seed cluster; (4) the Hunger/Thirst cluster; (5) the Pilgrimage cluster. The second part of the essay argues that the metaphors functioned in three ways: (1) as means of summarizing a world that made psychological and theological sense to speakers and hearers; (2) as means of elaborating the implications of Quaker beliefs; (3) as inventional tools readily adapted to the impromptu mode of delivery.read more
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff,Mark Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Metaphors We Live by
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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On Key Symbols1
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the use of the notion of "key symbol" in anthropological analysis and analyzed phenomena which have been or might be accorded the status of key symbol in cultural analyses, categorizing them according to their primary modes of operating on thought and action.
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Archetypal metaphor in rhetoric: The light‐dark family
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