Metaphor: A Bibliography of post-1970 publications

508 Pages·1985·44.86 MB·English

by  Jean-Pierre van Noppen

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AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series V
LIBRARY & INFORMATION SOURCES IN LINGUISTICS
Advisory Editorial Board
Mohammed H. Bakalla (Riyadh); Jivco Boyadjiev (Sofia)
Frank Di Trolio (Ottawa); Leszek M. Karpinski (Vancouver, B.C.)
Salvatore C. Sgroi (Catania); Joseph L. Subbiondo (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Matsujr Tajima (Fukuoka, Japan)
Volume 17
J.P. van Noppen et al. (comps.)
Metaphor
A Bibliography of Post-1970 Publications
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POST-1970 PUBLICATIONS
compiled by
J.P. VAN NOPPEN
S. DE KNOP, R. JONGEN
with the assistance of
B. Nitelet, A. Nysenholc and W. Shibles
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
1985
This project has been subsidised by the
Belgian Research Foundation (N.F.W.O.)
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Noppen, J.P. van (Jean-Pierre), 1946-
Metaphor: a bibliography of post-1970 publications.
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of Unguistic science. Series V, Library &
information sources in linguistics, ISSN 0165-7267; v. 17)
Includes indexes.
1. Metaphor - Bibliography. I. Title. II. Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and
history of linguistic science. Series V, Library and information sources in linguistics ; v. 17.
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PREFACE
Samuel Johnson wrote that where every other author
might aspire to praise, the lexicographer could only hope
to escape reproach, and that even this "negative recompense'
had yet been granted to very few.
The remark might ecually well apply to the bibliog­
rapher: just as it takes no more than one misstep to make
an otherwise virtuous man into a sinner, the absence of a
single item suffices to render a bibliography incomplete
and to lay it open to reproach, no malter how much time
and energy has gone into compiling it.
When Warren Shibles' Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliog
raphy and History appeared in 1971, it attracted a certain
amount of criticism -on its scope, accuracy and presenta­
tion- yet no metaphorologist worth his salt would be caught
without his copy. The book proved a valuable guide to a
whole generation of students; but as it was cast in its
final form at a moment when the general interest in meta­
phor was only beginning to rise, it failed to cover much
of the "metaphormania" which was to characterize the intel­
lectual climate of the nine "teen seventies, and the result­
ing proliferation of publications, which at the present
time -Summer 1984- is still nowhere near subsiding.
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The aim of the present bibliography is to fill the
post-1970 gap, and to provide the student of metaphor with
an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive)
overview of recent publications dealing with various as­
pects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines. Where the
emphasis is primarily on specific works "about" metaphor,
mainly in philosophy, linguistics and psychology, the list
has been supplemented with references to studies where
metaphor is explicitly recognized as an instrument of
research or analysis (e.g. in literature, in therapy, or in
the elaboration of scientific and religious models), or
where its use is illustrated. Books not explicitly dealing
with metaphor, but containing passages offering valuable
perspectives are also included. Whenever the grounds for
inclusion of a given work are not self-evident from the bi­
bliographic data, an effort has been made to explicitate
its relevance in a short comment.
The original aim was to provide bibliographic infor­
mation only. Van Noppen, the initiator and director of the
project, took up the considerable task of selecting and com­
piling the data. He was assisted by a team of regular col­
laborators -above all, Jongen and De Knop, who both contrib­
uted hundreds of titles- and a network of occasional corre­
spondents. Pre-1970 data not appearing in Shibles' bibli­
ography were included whenever felt to be of interest to
the present-day researcher, but were not collected system­
atically. Shibles himself, at the beginning of the project,
provided a substantial list of titles that came to his
knowledge after publication of his book. Use was also made
of a compilation on figurative language prepared by R.
Hoffman in 1977-78, as well as of the latest data recorded
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in his Metaphor Research Newsletter.
As the project evolved, an increasing desire was felt
to provide the reader with more than bare bibliographic data,
and an attempt was made to give short summaries of at least
such papers as were accessible to the collaborators. De
Knop, Jongen and Nitelet set themselves to this task with
great skill and enthusiasm. But obviously they could not
within reasonable limits of time locate, read and abstract
all papers, or even all important ones. Abstracts from M.
Johnson's Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor (signed
M.J.) were included with the permission from the University
of Minnesota Press, but cut down in length for technical
reasons. For these and doctoral dissertations, references
to Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) are given.
For reprints and republications of earlier papers, the
reader is referred to the abstracts in Shibles 1971.
The indexes were compiled by van Noppen, who also
acted as the project's keyboard operator. The necessary
software was provided by the Law School Computer Centre
(C.I.A.D.) at the Free University of Brussels (U.L.B.).
Research, documentation and data processing for the
project were made possible by a grant from the N.F.W.O.,
the Belgian Research Foundation, whose financial assistance
is gratefully acknowledged.
The data are listed under the first author's name, in
alphabetical order. Within each author's entry, papers are
classified according to year of publication. Names with
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particles (De, Di, Van, Von, etc., but not those with Mc or
Mac) are classified under the head word (T.A. Van Dijk is
to be found under Dijk, T.A. Van), but cross-references
have been provided at the appropriate places for users ac­
customed to a strictly alphabetical taxonomy.
Umlauts, tremas and most accents are reproduced, but
not taken into account in the classification. As the soft­
ware and the printer were not designed to deal with foreign
diacritics, graphic marks like a, s, n, e, ø or the German
ß have been deleted or replaced by an approximating graphy.
Transliterations from foreign alphabets are given as re­
ceived, i.e. without attempt at harmonization. However,
different spellings of one name (Ouspenski, Uspenskij, Us-
pensky, Uspenski) have been reduced to the most prevalent
English transliteration.
In a user-oriented perspective, it was felt to be
practical to split up the index into several lists.
The General Alphabetical Index lists the disciplines
and subdisciplines to which the references belong. Index
terms referring to very large classes of items (say, Lin
guistics or Philosophy) were not deemed to be useful, and
inasmuch as possible split up into smaller units (Grammar,
Semantics, etc.). This index also lists the authors studied
criticised or otherwise dealt with, and any other identifi­
ers felt to be useful to the scholar seeking to locate a
set of references related to a given topic.
The second index provides cross-references for the
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student interested in the theory of metaphor. He will be
referred to the entries dealing with specific components of
metaphor theory, with particular types of metaphors, or
with metaphor in contrast with other tropes (Metaphor and
X or Metaphor vs. X). Particular uses of metaphor will
also be found in this index.
The third index lists the tenors, vehicles and their
semantic fields. The researcher interested in, say water
imagery, spatial or sexual metaphor, or in the metaphors
used to refer to death will here be able to find the list
of works dealing with these particular instances of meta­
phor i c use .
The last index is somewhat more personal. It contains
the editors' recommendations to the beginner, who may be
somewhat taken aback by the sheer mass of material of­
fered in his discipline. An attempt has here been made to
guide him towards the principal works which, if read in
the order suggested, should give him a fair idea of the
main issues and tendencies in his chosen field of study.
The editors are aware that this bibliography cannot
claim to be exhausitve. Despite their considerable efforts,
usueful references may have escaped their attention. As
various modes of keeping the present compilation up to
date are being envisaged (among them the publication of
yearly supplements in the Metaphor Research Newsletter or
in the forthcoming journal Metaphor), users aware of any
imperfections or lacunae in the bibliography are invited
to forward their suggestions and comments to the director