1. Or What's a Metaphor For?
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Olson, David R.
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METAPHOR , *LECTURERS , *COMPREHENSION - Abstract
This article discusses four questions fundamental to understanding metaphor. First, what is the relation between speakers' intentions, their goals, their beliefs, and their utterances? -or, what's a metaphor? Second, do metaphors have to be recognized as metaphors to be metaphors? - or, when's a metaphor? Third, what is the role of literal meaning in the comprehension of a metaphor?-or, what's not a metaphor? And fourth, what is the intellectual function of metaphor?-or, what's a metaphor for? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1988
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