title: Søren Kierkegaard’s language: Semantic fields of metaphors and similes in The Sickness unto Death
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metadata.value: Ekrogulskaya, Alexandra
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metadata.value: 2024-02-29T10:02:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Ekrogulskaya A. Søren Kierkegaard’s language: Semantic fields of metaphors and similes in The Sickness unto Death. Scandinavian Philology, 2023, vol. 21, issue 2, pp. 318–335. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.208
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2023.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44977
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metadata.value: This article presents a classification of those artistic devices that the Danish philosopher
  Søren Kierkegaard uses in his work The Sickness unto Death. We will talk about such
  figures of speech as metaphor and simile. This classification arose as a result of the translation
  and analysis of the treatise since its careful study showed that these stylistic devices
  are not single and random means of expression designed to decorate or diversify the text,
  but an integral part of Kierkegaard’s philosophical thinking, which is characterized by
  figurativeness and concreteness. Kierkegaard blames modern philosophers for abstract
  thinking divorced from reality, and to present his ideas he chooses a figurative language
  replete with concrete comparisons since he sees it as his task to consider the real problems
  of human life. This classification is based on the division of artistic devices not according
  to their type, but according to their semantics. Each group of devices is a “semantic field”
  from which Kierkegaard drew metaphors and comparisons for a more precise and at the
  same time more figurative description of his views. The article considers the nine most
  common semantic fields, while in The Sickness unto Death, there are more than twenty of
  them. Since metaphors and comparisons are an integral part of Kierkegaard’s text, a careful
  study of them is very important both for philosophers who want to penetrate deeper
  into the concept of the Danish thinker, and for translators who seek to convey the author’s
  original text as accurately as possible. Thus, the main task of the presented classification
  is to approach the understanding of the concept of “despair” through those figurative
  characteristics that Kierkegaard endows them with.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 21; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Søren Kierkegaard
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: despair
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metadata.value: the sickness unto death
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metadata.value: semantic fields
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metaphor
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: simile
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Søren Kierkegaard’s language: Semantic fields of metaphors and similes in The Sickness unto Death
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metadata.value: Article
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