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- Title: Postformal Thinking As a Predictor of Creativity and of the Identification and Appreciation of Irony and Metaphor (Report)
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 248 KB
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Communication is fundamental to social interaction. Language is probably the most important medium of human communication, whether in the form of speech or the written word. When the main goal is to share precise information, the messages must be accurate and easy to interpret literally. However, when the goal is to communicate ambiguity and perhaps also provoke affect, the message may be conveyed implicitly rather than explicitly. This can be accomplished using the linguistic devices of metaphor and irony. Metaphors, which have appeared in ancient texts such as Homer's Odyssey and the Hindu Vedas, convey meaning indirectly using a form of analogy. According to Low (2002), their power lies in contradiction and ambiguity. For example, in Shakespeare's classic statement "All the world's a stage", at a primary, literal level, we have an obvious contradiction, since a stage is clearly not equal to the world; however, at a secondary, or figurative level, we have a form of analogy or comparison, in which both concepts become fused and their shared qualities are made apparent.