LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Conceptualization of Metaphor in Maharshi Ramana -
A Study of “The Marital Garland of Letters” and
“The Song of Poppadum”

Kiran Sikka, M.Phil. Ph.D. Scholar
Amrita Sharma, Ph. D.

Ramana
Ramana Maharshi

Metaphor in Literary Discourse

Metaphor, a much discussed subject in literary discourse since the time of Aristotle, has continued to command serious attention even in contemporary thought as can be seen from the voluminous work appearing on the subject from time to time. Whether it is Andrew Ortony raising questions regarding metaphors as necessary for transmission of new ideas or Max Black defending his interaction view of metaphor or L. Jonathan Cohen’s Semantics of Metaphor ( Ortony, Andrew. 1993: 19-58) it is metaphor which has preoccupied the modern critical mind.

Going beyond the stereotypes of the rational form of communication, metaphor leaps into areas where words or sentences are not merely seen as themselves but suggesting something else. Thejourney of a word - from known and apparent to suggest something, from explicit to implicit, from ordinary to extraordinary and from visual to mental - calls for many interpretations. Sometimes the ideas that go into mental construction, perception and understanding of a speaker’s intension, when taken literally, do not make sense in the given context. It is here that metaphor stands functional as a mode of conceptualization which can be investigated with insights into the given language.

The present paper discusses conceptualization of metaphor in Maharshi Ramana’s poetry.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Kiran Sikka
B.P.S.M.Girls College
Khanpur Kalan-131305 Sonipat
Haryana
India
kiransikka@yahoo.com

Amrita Sharma
Department of English
B.P.S.M.University
Khanpur Kalan-131305 Sonipat
Haryana
India
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