Lexis and the undergraduate : analysing vocabulary needs, proficiencies and problems

• Main Author: Cooper, Patricia Anne
• Other Authors: Hubbard, E. H. (Ernest Hilton), 1947-
• Format: Others
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Poetry; Philosophy; Representation; Metaphor; Concept; Post-structuralism; Reference; Language-game; Meaning; Use; 428.20711; College students; English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers; English language > Grammar; Vocabulary > Evaluation; Reading comprehension > Ability testing; Scholastic Aptitude Test; Verbal ability > Testing
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17926

Beginning with Plato's expulsion of the poets in the Republic, this dissertation ' looks at the often hostile, yet also symbiotic, relationship between·poetry and philosophy. Aristotle's 'response' to Plato is regarded as a significant origin of literary theory. Nietzsche's critique of Western philosophy as being an attempt to suppress its own metaphoricity, leads to a revaluation of truth and consequently of the privileging of philosophy over poetry. Post-structuralism sometimes overemphasizes this constitutive force of metaphoricity, at the expense of conceptual modes. However, Derrida's notion of philosophy as play retains a balance between concept and metaphor: there is no attempt to transcendentally ground philosophy, but neither is it reduced to a merely metaphorical discourse. Finally, Wittgenstein's notion of meaning as determined by use can help us distinguish pragmatically between poetry and philosophy by looking at the contexts in which they function. === Linguistics and Modern Languages === M.A. (Linguistics)