Metaphors and Paradigms of the Language Animal—or—The Advantage of seeing “Time Is a Resource” as a Paradigm

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

One of the features of an encompassing account of language that Charles Taylor examines in Chapter Five, The Figuring Dimension of Language, of The Language Animal is a special kind of metaphor, which is rooted in the embodiment of humans. Their perspective-taking, their intuition of position in space, etc., provide 'structural templates' for thinking and leave their traces in their expressions. Taylor compares these metaphors with paradigms. My paper discusses the differences between the two. Taylor's example 'Time Is a Resource' is understood more deeply if seen as a paradigm, i.e., a set of beliefs and practices, instead of as a 'structural template,' i.e., rooted in embodiment.

Translated title of the contributionMetaphern und Paradigmen des Sprachbegabten Tieres – oder – Vom Vorteil "Zeit ist eine Ressource" als Paradigma zu sehen
Original languageEnglish
JournalDialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
Volume56
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)693-704
Number of pages12
ISSN0012-2173
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2017

    Research areas

  • Philosophy - embodiment, metaphor, structural template, figuring elements of language, paradigm, time, Charles Taylor

Recently viewed

Activities

  1. Mirrored piezo servo hydraulic actuators for use in camless combustion engines and its Control with mirrored inputs and MPC
  2. Chain of Fools? Sensemaking Dynamics regarding the Issue of the Blockchain Technology in the FinTech Field
  3. Swarming. Science Fact and Science Fiction of Distributed Intelligence
  4. Collaborative modeling in climatic change adaptation and energy transformation.
  5. Alterations of a visual and how they work for and at the boundaries of an interorganizational team: A multimodal exploration
  6. BDSM Sagacity: embodying complexity
  7. Performativity and Authenticity in the Web 2.0-Enhanced Foreign Language Classroom
  8. LC-MS identification of the photo-transformation products of desipramine with studying the effect of different environmental variables on the kinetics of their formation
  9. Efficacy of an Internet-based problem-solving training for teachers: Results of a randomized controlled trial.
  10. Frame-based Matrix Factorizations
  11. Presentation of the paper entitled "Design of a Real Time Path of Motion Control for Manufacturing Applications"
  12. A Tool for Applications: Wavelet Packets
  13. Digitalization and cross-border knowledge transfer: The impact on international assignments
  14. Quantitative methods for research on educating educators: Designing, conducting and analyzing control trials
  15. The link between in- and external rotation of the auditor and the quality of financial accounting and audit
  16. Acceleration and Reflection
  17. Nonlinear dynamics and opinion formation in time varying networks
  18. Information, not Representation: Crowdworker Participation on Digital Work Platforms
  19. Material Migrations I Online Lecture Series
  20. ESF SCH/SCSS Exploratory Workshop - 2009
  21. DSP-Kolloquium 2017
  22. Digital Teaching and Learning

Publications

  1. Evaluation of standard ERP software implementation approaches in terms of their capability for business process optimization
  2. Modelling and implementation of an Order2Cash Process in distributed systems
  3. Measuring Learning Styles with Questionnaires Versus Direct Observation of Preferential Choice Behavior in Authentic Learning Situations
  4. Optimizing price levels in e-commerce applications with respect to customer lifetime values
  5. Dividing Apples and Pears: Towards a Taxonomy for Agile Transformation
  6. Developing a Complex Portrait of Content Teaching for Multilingual Learners via Nonlinear Theoretical Understandings
  7. Sharing in Christ's rule
  8. Assessment of cognitive load in multimedia learning using dual-task methodology
  9. Detection of coherent oceanic structures via transfer operators
  10. Mathematical relation between extended connectivity and eigenvector coefficients.
  11. Mining Implications From Data
  12. Executive function and Language Learning
  13. Comparing Empirical Methodologies in Pragmatics
  14. Construct- and criterion-related validity of the German Core Self-Evaluations Scale
  15. Assessing Quality of Teaching from Different Perspectives
  16. The Benefit of Web- and Computer-Based Interventions for Stress
  17. Passive Rotation of Rotational Joints and Its Computation Method
  18. Dynamic priority based dispatching of AGVs in flexible job shops
  19. In-Vehicle Sensor System for Monitoring Efficiency of Vehicle E/E Architectures
  20. Complexity and Administrative Intensity
  21. Combined MRI-PET dissects dynamic changes in plant structures and functions
  22. Analysis of the construction of an autonomous robot to improve its energy efficiency when traveling through irregular terrain
  23. Outperformed by a Computer? - Comparing Human Decisions to Reinforcement Learning Agents, Assigning Lot Sizes in a Learning Factory
  24. Towards Advanced Learning in Dispatching Rule-Based Scheuling
  25. Hybrid modelling by machine learning corrections of analytical model predictions towards high-fidelity simulation solutions