TY - JOUR
AU1 - Coleman, Martin A.
AB -  The Technology of Metaphor Martin A. Coleman Southern Illinois University at Carbondale A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. - Emily Dickinson Language is not a little, airtight, clean, finished container of something. It’s permeable, alive. It moves. - Julia Alvarez’ According t o Larry Hickman, John Dewey’s general philosophical project of analyzing and critiquing human experience may be understood in terms of technological inquiry (Hickman 1990, 1).Following this, I contend t h a t technology provides a model for Dewey’s analysis of language and meaning, and this analysis suggests a treatment of linguistic metaphor as a way of meeting new demands of experience with old tools of a known and understood language. An account of metaphor consistent with Dewey’s views on language and meaning avoids a strict dualism of literal meaning and metaphorical meaning as well as t h e explanatory shortcomings of a nondualistic theory like that found in Donald Davidson’s well-known paper ”What Metaphors Mean” (1978).2A Deweyan explanation of Martin Coleman is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. An article entitled “Emerson’s ‘Philosophy of the 
TI - The Technology of Metaphor
JF - The Southern Journal of Philosophy
DO - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2000.tb00906.x
DA - 2000-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-technology-of-metaphor-o0qD0q9gcl
SP - 379
VL - 38
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -