Introduction

[Baljit Grewal]

Dear Rene,
Thank you very much. The reference you supplied is really very useful for my
research. I look forward to the online version of METBIB when it becomes
available in 2005.
Thanks a lot for help and very best regards.

Baljit


Quoting Rene Dirven <rene.dirven at PANDORA.BE>:

> DEAR BALJIT,
>
> Below I attach ahopefully useful reference, taken from our electronic
> project METBIB, which now contains some 4,000 titles on metaphor and
> metonymy and which will be made available online by Benjamins, Amsterdam in
> early 2005.
> As you can see, the online database will also offer keywords, and for many
> titles, abstracts.
> I hope that this reference may help you find many more ways to your research
> target.
> Kind regards and good luck,
> Rene Dirven
>
> Maasen, Sabine; Weingart, Peter. 2001. Metaphors and the Dynamics of
> Knowledge. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought 27). London:
> Routledge, 208 pp., ISBN: 0415208025
> Keywords:
> sociology of science; sociology of knowledge; knowledge society;
> evolutionary theory; heuristics; cognition and metaphor; dynamics of
> knowledge; "struggle for existence" metaphor; Darwin; Kuhn; paradigm
> metaphor; chaos metaphor; everyday discourse; scientific discourse
> Abstract
> A striking characteristic of modern knowledge society is the rapid spread of
> certain ideas and concepts back and forth from everyday to scientific
> discourses, and across many different contexts of meaning. This work
> attempts to open up a new road to the study of these "dynamics of
> knowledge". Sociologists of knowledge and recently evolutionary theorists
> have offered explanations that either attribute social attention to
> particular ideas or shifts of meaning to the predominance of certain groups.
> Maasen and Weingart, however, offer a radical new explanation that explores
> knowledge dynamics by reference to the interaction between metaphors and
> discourses. The study focuses on three major case studies: the spread of
> Darwin's phrase "struggle for existence" in the popularizing literature in
> turn of the century Germany; the reception of Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of
> Scientific Revolution" and its identification with the term "paradigm" in
> the sciences and humanities; and the diffusion of the concept of "chaos"
> from scientific to everyday discourses.
> This work studies knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The
> focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts and the text
> dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge.
> (Publisher Book Description)
> Notes:
> Professor of Science Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Baljit Grewal" <balgre86 at AUT.AC.NZ>
> To: <DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 23:51
> Subject: Re: Introduction
>
>
> > Hi Rebecca,
> >
> > Hi I am from Auckland New Zealand and just started on my PhD at AUT. My
> > background is also in sociology and am looking at policy discourse on
> knowledge
> > society using Critical Discourse Analysis.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Baljit
>


Baljit Grewal
Auckland University of Technology