Download or read book Tropical Truth(s) written by Armin Burkhardt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18 contributions to this volume deal with a variety of 'tropes', such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, euphemism, antonomasia and hyperbole. Using various approaches or paradigms the authors aim to find answers to the crucial epistemological questions, namely whether and to what extent utterances containing tropes can be said to be true or false.