AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Metonymy, Granary, Appeasement
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An encompassing picture of reality created by members of a society. Culture is shared, value certain things in a certain way. Religion and religious expressions are part of worldviews. Metaphors, metonymy and symbols are important in constructing, understanding and interpreting religious experiences. Worldviews are forms of power, instruments of power. Balancing secularism (separation of religion and state) and religion. Asserts a meaningful relation between two expressions from different semantic domains (lord is my shepherd; arnold is a chicken") Metaphorical subject indicates the domain of experience that needs to be clarified (lord) Metaphorical predicate suggests the familiar domain of experience that may clarify the metaphorical subject (shepherd) Metaphorical entailments attributes of a metaphorical predicate that relate it to the culturally defined domain of experience to which it belongs (shepherding) Key metaphors that serve as the foundation of a worldview. Sources: social (kinship), organic (body), food, technological (machines, computers), war.
