Mortyfikacja (wstępne rozpoznania)
Mortification: A Preliminary Recognition

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to isolate and preliminarily describe a type of ontological-rhetorical predication that can be labeled as ‘mortification.’ It is a peculiar and paradoxical modality of animation, a mechanism upon which dying, deadness or lifelessness are predicated of animated beings as well as beings, objects, phenomena, and actions that are not, apart from figurative modes of language, attributed with the quality of vitality. Mortifications are based on the analogy of proportionality and attributions and also on the homologous relation between the real and symbolic register.

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