은유, 환유, 그리고 정치학 = Metaphor, Metonymy, and Politics

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay is an attempt to construct a politics of figurative language on the basis of Aristotle`s notion of rhetoric as an art of persuasion and Jakobson`s notion of language as a constitution of metaphoric similarity and metonymic contiguity. Aristotle`s treatise on language as the art of persuasion opens up the possibility of the politics of language analysis and Jakobson`s figurative understanding of the language structure leads to the analysis of the general use of language in rhetorical terms. Metaphor in figurative language as well as in ordinary language is a representation of the selective similarity in two compared concepts while suppressing differences between them. The political implication of metaphor is to maintain the status quo by privileging the dominance of the represented similarity, Metonymy is the substitution of a non-essential margin for the core idea. Hence, metonymy is the replacement of the status quo order by the marginal contiguous. The political implication of metonymy is to transform the social formation into a new order. However, since the metaphor and metonymy are co-existent in any given rhetorical representation, either one does not wholly suppresses the other. Metaphor is in the status of contingency by the operation of its accompanying metonymy, and so is metonymy by metaphor. Since the dominant hegemony is constructed and maintained by the consent of the subjugated to the power and the consent works through ideology, which functions in and by language, metaphorical and metonymical language analysis is crucial to the deconstructive strategy for a progressive politics.

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