by Michael Lesiuk | Jul 4, 2017 | Language Semiotics and Rhetoric
Can dogs understand metaphor? Maybe not. Maybe that kind of symbolic reasoning is beyond them. (Maybe.) But I’d argue that dogs can absolutely understand metonymy. To rehash the difference: Metaphor: A substitution, based on some analogical link, between two...
by Michael Lesiuk | Feb 14, 2012 | Fiction/Lit/Movies, Language Semiotics and Rhetoric
In Linguistics and Poetics, Roman Jakobson describes six functions of language. The phatic function of language is language whose function is essentially contact, language for the sake of language, regardless of signification. Anyone who owns a cat understands the...
