Spatial metaphors as rhetorical figures: case studies from wisdom texts of the Egyptian New Kingdom

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Abstract

This study analyses a series of wisdom texts dating to the Egyptian New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period (1550–712 BC) in order to outline the rhetorical and communicative usage of spatial metaphors. The findings contribute significantly to our understanding of rhetoric: that the spatial metaphors (particularly path-based metaphors) become increasingly numerous and explicit when the rhetorical weight of the text increases – when, in other words, the more enumerative wisdom text genre comes to be influenced by the exhortations of scribal school texts.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpatial metaphors
Subtitle of host publicationancient texts and transformations
EditorsFabian Horn, Cilliers Breytenbach
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherEdition Topoi
Pages45-68
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)9783981638424
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameBerlin Studies of the Ancient World
PublisherEdition Topoi
Number39
ISSN (Print)2366-6641
ISSN (Electronic)2366-665X

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