TY - CHAP

T1 - Mapping Friendship and Friendship Research

T2 - The Role of Analogies and Metaphors

AU - Emmeche, Claus

N1 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_19

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Research in general, and research on friendship in particular, uses metaphors and analogies, and research itself can be seen in analogy with map making. This chapter takes us on a meandering walk along mono- and multidisciplinary inquiries into friendship as seen from many perspectives, like that of history and philosophy of science (that has analogical modelling as a canonical style of reasoning) and semiotics, to reflect on the uses of metaphor and analogy. Semiotics as founded by C. S. Peirce is the science of representations, how representational devices relate to their objects and how the meaning generated depends upon context and interpretation. Metaphor and analogy are such representational tools, at once cognitive and common as we all use them to think with, but also specialized within the sciences and humanities where they can be used in effective and misleading ways. It is shown how the general map analogy can be semiotically analysed as a diagram and how its general form can be applied to the aspects of friendship that concerns the friends’ knowledge of Self and Other. We not only think, but also do things with metaphors, such as transforming a friend into some kin, or vice versa.

AB - Research in general, and research on friendship in particular, uses metaphors and analogies, and research itself can be seen in analogy with map making. This chapter takes us on a meandering walk along mono- and multidisciplinary inquiries into friendship as seen from many perspectives, like that of history and philosophy of science (that has analogical modelling as a canonical style of reasoning) and semiotics, to reflect on the uses of metaphor and analogy. Semiotics as founded by C. S. Peirce is the science of representations, how representational devices relate to their objects and how the meaning generated depends upon context and interpretation. Metaphor and analogy are such representational tools, at once cognitive and common as we all use them to think with, but also specialized within the sciences and humanities where they can be used in effective and misleading ways. It is shown how the general map analogy can be semiotically analysed as a diagram and how its general form can be applied to the aspects of friendship that concerns the friends’ knowledge of Self and Other. We not only think, but also do things with metaphors, such as transforming a friend into some kin, or vice versa.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - metaphors

KW - friendship

KW - analogies

KW - philosophy of science

KW - cognitive linguistics

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - friendship

KW - kinship terminology

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_17

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_17

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-3-030-90687-0

T3 - Synthese Library

SP - 339

EP - 362

BT - Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities

A2 - Wuppuluri, Shyam

A2 - Grayling, A.C.

PB - Springer

ER -