Metaphern begleiten unseren Alltag auf Schritt und Tritt, sie prägen unsere Wirklichkeit. Im metaphorischen Vollzug wird sichtbar, in welcher Weise unsere Orientierungsräume entstehen.
In diesem Band ...wird dieser Vollzug aus mehreren disziplinären Perspektiven beleuchtet. An und in Metaphern können wir den kommunikativ-konstruktiven Charakter der Wirklichkeit erkennen. Daher ist es angebracht, nach der Leistung der Metaphern zu fragen und danach, wie Metaphern unser Denken und Handeln ermöglichen und (re)strukturieren. Sie werden daher nicht als sprachliche System-Phänomene aufgefasst, sondern als eine besondere Art der Kopplung zwischen Kognition und Kommunikation. In dieser interdisziplinären Perspektive wird untersucht, wie Metaphern im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kognition und Kommunikation operieren und wie sie an dem, was wir Wirklichkeit nennen, konstitutiv beteiligt sind.
The complex correlations between literature and science are currently being explored in a number of disciplines and from a variety of perspectives. In German-speaking countries, systematic research ...in this direction has intensified since the mid-1990s. Based on the certain opacity of existing models and approaches in this complex, we find it meaningful to show how the different research directions have been differentiated so far and how they are interconnected, furthermore which categories and concepts make up competing tensions and what these tensions mean, to what extent we can really speak of competing approaches or only of possible inconsistencies in the use of terminology. However, the main intention of this paper is to correlate the basic theoretical approaches within which the interdependencies between literature and science can be modelled and to attempt a kind of syntopia, albeit in a necessarily selective form. However, the aim of this paper is not to evaluate the approaches discussed or to offer explicit recommendations. Nor will the subject of any evaluation be the already existing more or less elaborated and generalized typologizations or systematizations, to which we will refer, however, for logical reasons.
The subject of the analysis is the novel Leben (Life, 2013) by the German author David Wagner. In fact, although designed as a novel, the book is more precisely an autopathography, which presents a ...personal and authentically reflective look at the experience of one’ s ownillness and describes the medical intervention, the surgical transplantation of a new liver. The medical specialist discourse plays an essential role in this context. Medical knowledge and personal reflections overlap like those areas of meaning from which analogies often emergeand in which metaphors have their origin. In the following, it is a matter of uncovering those areas that are combined to create analogies in order to describe their communicative functionon the basis of their possible implementation in the form of metaphors (also known as between-domain analogies). Particular consideration is given to the role of the medical specialist discourse and the question of how it shapes the analogization and metaphorization of one’ sown experience of illness and the experience of organ transplantation. In doing so, we rely largely on the analytical model based on the theory of figurative language by Hans Georg Coenen.
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