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082			_a320 CHA
100			_aChandhoke, Neera
245		0	_aSpatial metaphors and political practices
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_b"Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and L"
260			_c1991
300			_a41p.
520			_aLinguistic analysis has sensitized us to the notion of language being double coded. Metaphor in this can mean a straightforth representation of phenomena, i.e. the creation of an image expressing some established rules of discourse or practice. For instance: the sense handmill is the signifier of feudalism; just as the factory chimney and inner cities are the representative codes of Industrial Capitalism and the telecommunications tower is that of advanced capitalism. Alternatively, metaphor acquires historical significance in a changing field of discourse. It indicates the struggle of the 'new' against the established foms. It is in this sense a language which communicates by expansion and subversion of the accepted rules. It may represent a break, a merger, a recombination, or all three. Therefore, metaphor not only connotes the new born out of the old, it interrogates the old; reveals the contradictions and examines the spaces within the old. It thus signifies both new possibilities and the loss of possibilities.
650			_aPolitical science.
942			_cDB _2ddc