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	Enculturation: Monique Rooney on Larsen's Passing
		In this sense, passing is a form of catachresis, an abuse of categorical meaning that points to the inherent instability of categorisation.
		Catachresis, a wilful misreading, abuses the meaningfulness of meaning by articulating signification as a lack that is only made present through the act of naming.
		Catachresis, for Edelman, is "the site at which the assumption of meaning confronts the disfiguring force of figuration" (238).
	enculturation.gmu.edu /3_2/rooney/rooney2.html (555 words)

	A verbal ship lost in a sea of words / Schwarzenegger just latest example
		In case you're unaware of the condition, catachresis is not a pulled muscle or a rash caused by prolonged exposure to baby oil.
		Catachresis is the formal term for mixed metaphors, those annoying gaffes speakers and writers sometimes make when they confuse the comparisons they're making, thus creating and exposing muddled thinking.
		Catachresis occurs most often when people forget they are speaking in metaphors, then scramble those metaphors in ways that either don't make sense, or make a kind of sense the speaker or writer did not intend.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/25/INGM6ES4CA1.DTL (886 words)

	Literary Research / Recherche littéraire, nos. 37-38, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		If, for instance, one takes a catachresis such as ‘the leg of a table,’ it is clear that the choice of that word which denotes those ‘thingies’ upon which the table ‘stands’ has been made on the basis of their similarity to human legs.
		Catachresis is, like metaphor and metonymy, a trope,[32] since that word or phrase which constitutes the vehicle must be understood as having a different meaning than the literal; the word or phrase ‘turns away’ from, or twists, its literal meaning.
		Thus, catachresis is a non-figurative trope; a trope that does not necessarily enrich language, nor renders it more definite (emphasizing certain nuances), but expresses a meaning that may not be conveyed by any other term: catachresis is what makes communication possible.
	www.uwo.ca /modlang/ailc/Articles/Articles4.htm (4507 words)

	Tate Papers Autumn 2004
		Catachresis and syllepsis bring a strange quality of literalness to Judd’s most figurative descriptions, as Thomas Hess must have intuited right at the beginning.
		Catachresis is the absence of style and stylistic eloquence.
		Catachresis and syllepsis are not the ultimate keys to the puzzle but provide a pragmatic way of dealing with it.
	www.tate.org.uk /research/tateresearch/tatepapers/04autumn/shiff.htm (6340 words)

	The irrelevant source for irrelevant stuff.
		Eclipted and Catachresis are having a show on March 12, 2004.
		There are going to be 3 bands playing, Eclipted, Catachresis, and we think Sweet White Chocolate (which is a Northfield band).
		Eclipted and Catachresis had a show a few weeks ago, but that was a small house party.
	woochopper5.netfirms.com (1589 words)

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		catachresis, which is correctly called "abuse", which fits a strange name to things: "Arise, why do you sleep O Lord?" For "arise" does not fit the Lord, who is never known to have been capable of sleeping.
		Qui modus locutionis tam creber in divinis vel humanis reperitur litteris, seu etiam in quotidianis confabulationibus nostris, ut prisci grammatici proprio tropo, qui catachresis dicitur, cum donari, vel odorari consueverint.
		Abusion, called of the Grecians Catachresis, is when for a certaine proper woorde, wee vse that whiche is moste nigh vnto it: As in calling some water, a fishe Pond, though there be no fishe in it at all: or els whe we saie, here is longe talke, and small matter.
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/katachresis.htm (7053 words)

	Catachresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catachresis is the (usually intentional) use of any figure of speech that flagrantly violates the norms of a language community.
		Using a word to denote something radically different from its normal meaning.
		Catachresis is often used to convey extreme emotion or alienation, and is prominent in baroque literature and, more recently, in the avant-garde.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catachresis (100 words)

	StarCityGames.com :: View topic - Discuss: Catachresis
		Catachresis is the play you make when your odds of winning are reduced by making any other "conventional" play.
		The more extreme the catachresis, the less likely you are to win in another fashion.
		From the team draft example given, Mike is implying that they were being so absurdly out-opened, that their best chances lie in getting good bounces from bad players, which is how it seemed to turn out.
	www.starcitygames.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=203693 (2869 words)

	Moonmilk: URTH archives v8 0727
		Anything that is catachrestic or possessed of catachresis.
		Catachresis is the misuse of words, such as using the wrong word for the context, or using a forced figure of speech.
		I think that catachrests may be the genetically altered form of some kind of ape, probably a tamarin, like the golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia).
	www.urth.net /whorl/archives/v0008/0727.shtml (1823 words)

	this Public Address 3.0: Thought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Catachresis is the trope of absurd comparison: God is a fisherman, or if you’re familiar with Concrete Blonde, God is a Bullet.
		A catachresis is often used to productively refer to a “thing” that exists outside of language—something that has no “proper” name.
		Thus, catachresis is essentially untranslatable given the common frameworks of interlingual and intralingual translation.
	www.thispublicaddress.com /archives/000827.php (780 words)

	Poetry \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		However, particularly since the rise of Modernism, some poets have opted for reduced use of these devices, preferring rather to attempt the direct presentation of things and experiences.
		Other 20th century poets, however, particularly the surrealists, have pushed rhetorical devices to their limits, making frequent use of catachresis.
		In pre-literate societies, poetry was frequently employed as a means of recording oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, law and other forms of expression or knowledge that modern societies might expect to be handled in prose.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Poetry (1790 words)

	Weebl and Bob - Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		From the exquisitely minimalist opener, VI Scoise Poise, with its ball-bearing beats and soft synth strains to the progressively more frantic closer, Lentic Catachresis, this record is amazing.
		Admittedly, it's not as overtly tuneful as their previous albums (maybe EP7 excepted) but there is nothing more beautiful than hearing the distorted synth sounds slowly break through on Pen Expers or the bell-like sounds on Parhelic Triangle gradually coalesce into a recognisable melody.
		Lentic Catachresis - It is likely that 1/100 people will like this, but I happen to be one of the lucky ones.
	www.weebl.jolt.co.uk /store/index.php?ASIN=B00005AQB9 (817 words)

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		"Catachresis'' can refer either to the use of the wrong word for the context or the use of a forced and especially paradoxical figure of speech.
		As you might have guessed, "catachresis'' is a word mostly used by grammarians and teachers of grammar.
		"Catachresis'' comes to us by way of Latin from the Greek word "katachresis,'' which means "misuse.'' A word whose meaning is very close to that of "catachresis'' is "malapropism,'' which usually refers to an unintentionally humorous misuse of a word.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /1104/dictionary_men111104.asp (1257 words)

	Terms and Concepts: The Rise of the Self-Help Book
		Catachresis [catachrestic (adj.)]: "From the Greek for ‘misuse,’ a term referring to the incorrect or strained use of a word.
		Catachresis often involves a mixed or ‘illogical’ metaphor.
		The meaning of the word dry is strained when we refer to a town in which liquor cannot be purchased as ‘dry’" (Ross 41).
	www.cc.utah.edu /~tsk2/sh_terms.html (792 words)

	Bad Subjects: A Tired Aesthetic
		The displacement of reproduction from the sphere of the sexual politic is concomitant with the displacement in meaning, the catachresis, of the phallus in the sexual aesthetic.
		In the logic of the catachresis, the anus gains new prominence.
		Plateforme coincides with other articulations of the catachresis: the new but tired phallus is as racist as the old, hard working phallus, but relates to the anus rather than the vagina.
	bad.eserver.org /issues/2002/61/arteaga.html (2818 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| Huh? What happened?
		catachresis: gonna have to say that i can't call rational any beliefs arrived at primarily via religion.
		Tell me three made-up ideas about the behavior of the invisible purple leprechan hiding in the corner, and I'll be able to logically derive a limited history of leprechan culture.
		Therefore, to destroy the unborn is to be a slaveholder.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/5651 (5487 words)

	Theses from Uppsala University : 777 - Sports of culture
		With a double focus on the attempt to inscribe subject-positions that resist the determinations of colonial history and apartheid, and on the formal conditions of possibility for such a strategy, the thesis opens with an extended theoretical discussion.
		Gayatri Spivak's concept of catachresis and the term "mimicry" as defined by Homi Bhabha are of particular importance to the analysis of how formal elements and subject-positions marked by colonial history are textually reappropriated.
		In the chapter on Fools, the main focus is on the challenge to the dichotomy between African "tradition" and "rational" Western knowledge.
	publications.uu.se /theses/abstract.xsql?lang=en&isbn=99-2954958-7 (400 words)

	Carlshamre: Metaphors
		But in catachresis the metaphorical mechanism (or some other trope) is employed to create an expression for something that otherwise lacks a name.
		Obviously the substitutional theory is not apt to handle catachresis, and as elocutio - the part of classical rhetorics to which the theory of the tropes belong - primarily investigates questions of style, i.e., of choice between alternative modes of expression, it treats catachresis as a marginal phenomenon.
		Apart from catachresis, where there is no literal alternative, metaphors are chosen because they are decorative, vivid, or brief.
	www.philosophy.su.se /personal/staffanstexter/metaphors.htm (6637 words)

	Cherchi: Geryon's Canto
		Synecdoche, metonymy, and catachresis are figures that aim at the concrete, material representation whereas periphrasis exists to avoid precise definition or identification.
		Geryon «docks» (the verb «arrivò» which normally means «arrived» is used here etymologically as «brought to the shore»: another catachresis) the upper part of his body.
		This part of Geryon remains perfectly immobile, or so it appears in the detailed and composite description by the poet which follows a classical pattern: it begins from the head and it is supposed to end at the feet.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Italian_Studies/LD/numbers/02/cherchi.html (5709 words)

	Chase - "Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes." - Legacies of Paul de Man - Praxis ...
		That "'expression in the poet'" is a catachresis standing in for another figure.
		Thus "White Mythology" jolts at the catachresis "sowing sun" and registers it as the proper name of the generative figure of generative figures in Aristotle.
		We are brought to a special kind of non-figure: an ostensible proposition which consists in the "proper name" which is only an indicator, which indicates, but does not communicate or express.
	www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/deman/chase/chase.html (4020 words)

	catachresis - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Catachresis : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Catachresis : Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples [home, info]
		Words similar to catachresis: catachreses, catachrestic, catachrestical, catachrestically, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=catachresis (259 words)

	girtby.net » Blog Archive » Catachresis of the Year
		Time Magazine are hereby nominated for the catachresis of the year 2004:
		Or chewing gum, which he’d stuck there because he needed to walk somewhere and couldn’t do both at once.
		I wouldn’t dignify that with catachresis, though—it’s just a solecism, a misuse of “literally”, which happens literally
	girtby.net /archives/2004/12/20/catachresis-of-the-year (172 words)

	Catachresis, by Mike Flores - a Magic: the Gathering Magic Fundamentals article
		Now of course if the opponent's didn't cooperate, Tim would have had a slightly worse card (Skirk Marauder) for his deck, but the opponents would also have blown a hate draft on Canopy Crawler rather than a card for one of their decks.
		Now keep in mind that, functionally, when we Play The Man, go catachresis rather than conventionally tight, and win because of it, what we have really done is choose the real right (read:"optimal") play.
		Kai says that while he got lucky, his win there was a result of making the exact tightest play at every opportunity On The Way to getting lucky, so that once he actually made that topdeck, he could win where another player might not have.
	www.starcitygames.com /php/news/expandnews.php?Article=7635 (3036 words)

	Find in a Library: Outlining the English nation textual catachresis and its translation in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV and ...
		Find in a Library: Outlining the English nation textual catachresis and its translation in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV and Henry V
		Outlining the English nation textual catachresis and its translation in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV and Henry V
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/fa3487cf0e2fd1c2a19afeb4da09e526.html (85 words)

	Communique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Example sentence: The newspaper's sharp-eyed copy editor was adept at spotting any catachresis that might find its way into a reporter's story.
		As you might have guessed, "catachresis" is a word favored by grammarians.
		(Fowler preferred "common," but "mutual" does have an established sense which is correct in that context.) The first recorded use of "catachresis" dates to 1553, and it has been used to describe (or decry) misuses of a word ever since.
	www.seattlecentral.org /pio/102801.html (1049 words)

	amnesiac:references + background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Catachresis" means: "strained use of a word or phrase, as for rhetorical effect" "a deliberately paradoxical figure of speech" "the improper use of a word or phrase, especially in application to something it does not denote, as the use of "blatant" to mean "flagrant".
		Even the name "Nosuch Library" gives the impression of frustration and helplessness, like being told that what we are looking for doesn't actually exist.
		The Amnesiac sleeve also refers to "Catachresis College".
	www.maths.tcd.ie /~mogwai/amnesiac_ref.html (898 words)

	Chapter Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties of Index by Roget's Thesaurus
		Metaphor (Substantives), figure, metonymy, trope, catachresis, synecdoche, figure of speech, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type 22, symbol, symbolism 550, tropology.
		Misinterpretation (Substantives), misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misspelling, misapplication, catachresis, mistake, cross - reading, cross - purpose.
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	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/269/1626/21915/3.html (288 words)

	lively.doc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eurydice’s Complaint: A fatal Catachresis in Ovid's Metamorphoses
		Engaging in particular with the studies of Enterline (2000) and Hinds (1998) I will contend that the story of Orpheus’ love for Eurydice in the Metamorphoses is, in effect, a rape narrative comparable to the stories of Daphne and Apollo (Met.
		As Sara Mack (1995, 281) wryly observes: ‘Why was the new bride wandering around with her girlfriends anyway?’ I will answer that Eurydice is seeking to resist the amorous intentions of her new husband and attempting to maintain her virginal status when she is fatally bitten by the snake.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/03mtg/abstracts/lively.html (464 words)

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		A long history of folks not knowing what the hell catachresis is, but venturing an educated guess.
		Certainly after Quintilian what gets called catachresis tends to be improper relative to what was called by that name prior to his writing (to make an absolute claim).
		The primal trope, the trope archetype, will be a structural matrix of which these sub-catagories are the vectors, no? Each of these figures of speech must be taken as fragments of a master myth: the process of trope (a Trope's Progress?).
	www.cas.usf.edu /journal/logs/log9710.html (16688 words)

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