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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno VII , n° 1, Giugno 1989 ( Note e Rassegne ) pag. 39-46
LANGUAGE AND MYTH: A NOTE ON
CANTELLI'S STUDY OF VICO'S VIEWS ON LANGUAGE
MARCEL DANESI
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
As a figure of speech, metaphor was known long before Giambattista Vico. But it is in his New Science that one finds, for the first time ever, the view that metaphor is our most fundamental cognitive operation1. As Haskell has recently put it, this constitutes a rather remarkable event, because it "is not often in the history of science or of philosophy that one can trace the first historical conceptual moment in the birth of a discovery"2. [...]
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