Some Textual Functions of Metaphors in the Novel Luntrea lui Caron by Lucian Blaga
Some Textual Functions of Metaphors in the Novel Luntrea lui Caron by Lucian Blaga

Summary/Abstract: This paper considers some aspects of metaphor as a creative process at the level of text, based on E. Coseriu‘s integral linguistics of text and the theory of metaphor developed by M. Borcilă on the basis of integral linguistics and inspired by elements of Lucian Blaga‘s views on metaphor.We apply the typology of metaphors as outlined by M. Borcilă in an approach based on integral textual semantics, with an initial distinction between metaphor in language (I) and metaphor in text (II), followed by a distinction between two types of metaphor of textual ‗sense‘: signifying or linguistic (IIA) and trans-signifying or trans-linguistic (IIB).Based on the ideas of ‗text constitution‘ and ‗sense articulation‘ we propose that some trans-linguistic metaphors in Blaga‘s novel Charon‘s Boat (Luntrea lui Caron) may function at different levels of ‗sense articulation‘: (a) as elements of ‗text constitution‘ (as ‗individual‘, ‗local‘ metaphors), and (b) as textual devices or strategies of ‗sense articulation‘.

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