Upcoming Events
Metaphors We Die By: How Patterns of Communication Can Become Deadly
Date and Time
Monday, September 19, 2016 7:00 PM
Description
The language and idioms of information transmission pervade both academic and public discourse about communication. But the power of metaphors, and other configurations of meaning, is not measured by the information they impart. Rather, it lies in the way these enable or restrict engagement with the world. This implies that we should subject them to a critical eye, alert to the dangers as well as the enrichments brought by commonly reiterated metaphors. The lecture will examine cases of “metaphorical strangling”--in science, medicine, and public life--that can become deadening when misconstrued as information.
Join Dr. John Lyne from the University of Pittsburgh for this event on Monday, September 19 at 7 pm.
This event is sponsored by the Communication Studies Major Program, Institute for General Semantics, School of Communications, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Graduate School, and the Office of the Provost.
Contact
Valerie Peterson
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