Ecosemiotic aspects of zoomorphic metaphors
The human as a predator
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12637098 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ariel Gómez Ponce (0000-0001-8830-9544, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 231-247 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sign Systems Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1406-4243 • E-ISSN: 1736-7409 |
| Publisher | University of Tartu (PUBLISHER • EE) |
| DOI | 10.12697/sss.2016.44.1-2.13 |
| OpenAlex | W2472867407 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Through history, predatory features are used to constructs when constructing textual representations on the human/animal frontier. The predatory act has remained a recurring motif that emerges from a metaphoric system in cultural imagination. An ecosemiotic approach to this topic allows us to understand how specific predatory behaviours constitute a source of meaning: in other words, how an alleged “animal tendency” is appropriated (translated) into various cultural texts through metaphors, creating a rhetorical order. To illustrate this, some features of metaphors of predatoriness in certain texts in Argentinian culture will be reviewed. A particularly vivid example is provided by two species, the cougar and the jaguar, that have generated cultural translations which expand and proliferate into contemporaneity. These translations constitute a form in which culture metaphorizes aggressiveness and interprets certain species from a historical and ideological perspective. The Argentinian cases suggest a revision of how history has treated the cultural other in terms of cultural and biological inferiority
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Frontier · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Metaphor · Motif (music · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |