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| The Meaning of Death in Kenkō Yoshida's Tsurezuregusa [Essays in idleness] | ||
| 作者 | Yamaguchi, Toshiko (著) |
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| 出處題名 | International Journal of the Sociology of Language |
| 卷期 | n.229 |
| 出版日期 | 2014 |
| 頁次 | 117 - 130 |
| 出版者 | De Gruyter |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.degruyter.com/ |
| 出版地 | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Toshiko Yamaguchi: University of Malaya. |
| 關鍵詞 | death; impermanence; metonymy; Tsurezuregusa [Essays in idleness] |
| 摘要 | This article discusses the meaning of death in Kenkō Yoshida's Tsurezuregusa [Essays in idleness], completed around 1330 at the end of the Kamakura Period (1185–1333). Kenkō, who was a Buddhist monk and hermit, naturally construed the concept of death in terms of the impermanence of the world. Taking Lakoffian conceptual metaphor theory, in which death is understood as an abstract category, as a jumping-off point, I contrast the Buddhist conception of death with different conceptualizations of metaphor and metonymy by contemporary scholars to locate the notion of “death” in the medieval linguistic context. I claim that while death in Essays in idleness is more frequently considered non-literal, it is not interpretable metaphorically. This hints at an alternative, namely, that Kenkō's concept of death is created metonymically. Impermanence as a literary aesthetic thus crystallizes in the form of death as a syntagmatic metonym. |
| 目次 | Abstract 117 Keywords 117 1 Introduction 117 2 Death in Essays 121 3 Metonymy in Essays 123 3.1 Why is death not metaphorical? 123 3.2 Linear and conjunctive metonymy 125 3.3 Impermanence as context 127 4 Conclusion 128 References 129 |
| ISSN | 01652516 (P); 16133668 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2014-0020 |
| 點閱次數 | 18 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.09.15 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.09.15 |
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