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This book explores the functions of metaphors, emphasizing their evaluation based on context. It identifies three main functions: illustrative, heuristic, and constitutive. Illustrative metaphors enhance arguments, heuristic metaphors open new perspectives, and constitutive metaphors replace old meanings. The distinction between transfer and transformation is also discussed.
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Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors, Sabine Maasen, E. Mendelsohn, P. Weingart
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- Title
- Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sabine Maasen, E. Mendelsohn, P. Weingart
- Publisher
- Springer / Springer Netherlands
- Publisher
- 1995
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN13
- 9780792331742
- Description
- This book explores the functions of metaphors, emphasizing their evaluation based on context. It identifies three main functions: illustrative, heuristic, and constitutive. Illustrative metaphors enhance arguments, heuristic metaphors open new perspectives, and constitutive metaphors replace old meanings. The distinction between transfer and transformation is also discussed.