Thursday, February 11, 2016

Grice's Zooification

Speranza

Zooification




when an inanimate object, human being, or abstract concept is spoken of as thought it were endowed with the attributes of a non-human animal









There's Hughes's anthropomorphisation.

And then I find
 
Zooification: when an inanimate object, human being, or abstract concept is spoken of as thought it were endowed with the attributes of a non-human animal.
 
Perhaps Ted Hughes, OM, likes to zooify, too?








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