"Meaning-making" in language and biology.
The linguistic metaphor in biology adheres to a representational theory that seeks similarities between pre-given domains. The point of departure of this paper is the generative and nonrepresentational conception of metaphor. This paper argues that by adopting the nonrepresentational conception of metaphor, meaning-making may be the appropriate perspective for understanding biological systems. In both cases (the linguistic and the biological), boundary conditions between different levels of organization use micro-level disorganization to create macro-level organization.
Neuman
Yair
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. yneuman@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
D001695:Biology; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D019365:Metaphor; D012660:Semantics