Metaphor and Metonymy: Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and Others *
Metaphor and Metonymy: Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and Others *
This chapter argues in favour of Roman Jakobson’s privileging of metonymy alongside metaphor as primary linguistic tropes (‘trope’ is to be understood here, in a significant modification of Aristotle’s understanding of metaphor, as deviation from usage perceived or felt as normal). But Jakobson shares with Aristotle, as also with Paul Ricoeur and philosophical theorists at large, the fault of paying too little respect to actual literary practice. The result is that they identify metaphor as the defining characteristic of poetic language, mistakenly ignoring the importance of metonymy as well.
Keywords: metaphor, metonymy, trope, Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur
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