CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Telepathy, The Amazing Mr. X, Thumos

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3109
• Professor: Kyle Conway

Document Summary

The idea of communication is one people have developed over time. Metaphor is a rhetorical device for seeing something in terms of something else. It brings about the thisness of a that, or the thatness of a this. " (kenneth burke) We could say that the metaphor tells us something about one character as considered from the point of view of another character. And to consider a from the point of view of b is, of course, to use b as a perspective on a. It takes work to see something from a different perspective. If you are confused, that"s a symptom of the work of thinking - you"re trying to sort out competing claims. Metaphors reveal contradictions in our lives and thought. Our purpose is not to resolve them but to identify their competing premises. Metaphor (if we can call it that) of breath: Thumos and the phrenes are the organs that feel.