Mapping Friendship and Friendship Research: The Role of Analogies and Metaphors
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Mapping Friendship and Friendship Research : The Role of Analogies and Metaphors. / Emmeche, Claus.
Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities: Words and Worlds. ed. / Shyam Wuppuluri; A.C. Grayling. Springer, 2022. p. 339-362 (Synthese Library, Vol. 453).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Mapping Friendship and Friendship Research
T2 - The Role of Analogies and Metaphors
AU - Emmeche, Claus
N1 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_19
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Research in general, and research on friendship in particular, uses metaphors and analogies, and research itself can be seen in analogy with map making. This chapter takes us on a meandering walk along mono- and multidisciplinary inquiries into friendship as seen from many perspectives, like that of history and philosophy of science (that has analogical modelling as a canonical style of reasoning) and semiotics, to reflect on the uses of metaphor and analogy. Semiotics as founded by C. S. Peirce is the science of representations, how representational devices relate to their objects and how the meaning generated depends upon context and interpretation. Metaphor and analogy are such representational tools, at once cognitive and common as we all use them to think with, but also specialized within the sciences and humanities where they can be used in effective and misleading ways. It is shown how the general map analogy can be semiotically analysed as a diagram and how its general form can be applied to the aspects of friendship that concerns the friends’ knowledge of Self and Other. We not only think, but also do things with metaphors, such as transforming a friend into some kin, or vice versa.
AB - Research in general, and research on friendship in particular, uses metaphors and analogies, and research itself can be seen in analogy with map making. This chapter takes us on a meandering walk along mono- and multidisciplinary inquiries into friendship as seen from many perspectives, like that of history and philosophy of science (that has analogical modelling as a canonical style of reasoning) and semiotics, to reflect on the uses of metaphor and analogy. Semiotics as founded by C. S. Peirce is the science of representations, how representational devices relate to their objects and how the meaning generated depends upon context and interpretation. Metaphor and analogy are such representational tools, at once cognitive and common as we all use them to think with, but also specialized within the sciences and humanities where they can be used in effective and misleading ways. It is shown how the general map analogy can be semiotically analysed as a diagram and how its general form can be applied to the aspects of friendship that concerns the friends’ knowledge of Self and Other. We not only think, but also do things with metaphors, such as transforming a friend into some kin, or vice versa.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - metaphors
KW - friendship
KW - analogies
KW - philosophy of science
KW - cognitive linguistics
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - friendship
KW - kinship terminology
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_17
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-030-90687-0
T3 - Synthese Library
SP - 339
EP - 362
BT - Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities
A2 - Wuppuluri, Shyam
A2 - Grayling, A.C.
PB - Springer
ER -
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