Psychology As Metaphor

Informationen zum Autor A J Soyland is a Lecturer in Culture and Communication in Psychology at the University of Lancaster. Klappentext The view that the study of rhetoric and metaphor is crucial to understanding psychological discourse is explored in this lucidly argued book. The author scrutinizes a wide range of traditional psychological theory including neuropsychology and memory, childhood development, the IQ debate, accounts of emotion and descriptions of the mind to show how rhetorical strategies and the deployment of metaphor are central to the work of creating a convincing theoretical account. The book explores the distinction between philosophy and rhetoric and offers an interdisciplinary analysis of theories of metaphor and language while pointing to future directions for research. Its theoretical breadth is matched by its wide-ranging treatment of key thinkers from Darwin, James and Freud, through Watson, Lashley, Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner and Burt to writers in contemporary psychology such as Kamin, Eysenck, Rumelhart and Shallice. Zusammenfassung This text scrutinizes a wide range of traditional psychological theories! including neuropsychology and memory! childhood development! and the IQ debate! to show how rhetorical strategies and the deployment of metaphors are central to the work of creating a convincing theoretical account. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Metaphor, Rhetoric and Analysis PART ONE: METAPHOR Memory After Lashley Metaphors as Promissory Notes Comparing Concepts of Development Metaphor and Presupposition Accounting for Emotion Metaphor as System The Theory of Metaphor The Extension of Discourse PART TWO: RHETORIC The Rhetoric of Validity in the IQ Debate James and Freud on the Mind Metaphor and Rhetoric as Enrolment Describing Psychological Objects Concluding Discussion

Product details

• Authors: A John Soyland, a John John Soyland, A. J. Soyland, A. John Soyland, A.j. Soyland
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.1994
• EAN: 9780803989573
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8957-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Psycholinguistics, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, History of Psychology;Philosophical Psychology