Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence

Vehicles : cars, canoes, and other metaphors of moral ambivalence /

Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transp...

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Other Authors: Lipset, David, 1951- (Editor), Handler, Richard, 1950- (Editor), Auslander, Mark (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford [England] : Berghahn Books, 2014
Subjects:
Vehicles > Social aspects > Case studies.
Transportation > Social aspects > Case studies.
Material culture > Case studies.
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