Author ORCID Identifier
Cristina Valencia Mazzanti: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5110-6628
">0000-0002-5110-6628/a>
Melissa Freeman: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5713-8110">0000-0002-5713-8110/a>
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Publication Title
Journal of Applied Hermeneutics
Abstract
Through text and illustrations, I (first author) theorize language as a being that becomes and revels in its plurality, illuminating the inherent and necessary aesthetic and multimodal dimensions of any struggle toward meaning. To do so, I start by foregrounding my own experiences with the diversity that characterizes language to portray the significance of studying its ontology and plurality. I then identify philosophical hermeneutics as a practical metatheory that centrally positions language as a medium for understanding. From a hermeneutic perspective, language manifests as a network of meaning that is constituted through an ontological metaphoricity that echoes a capacity to both present and represent phenomena. This metaphoricity of language is then discussed in terms of its linguistically, speculative, and dialogic dimensions. I pose that language discloses an otherness in ourselves that is fostered in a capacity for renewed understandings and meanings that are yet becoming.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v2022i2022.75459
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Valencia Mazzanti, Cristina and Freeman, Melissa, "The Other in The Self: The Ontological Metaphoricity of Language" (2022). Education and Child Study: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/edc_facpubs/23
Comments
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