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- Source :
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Metaphor & Symbolic Activity . 1988, Vol. 3 Issue 4, p215. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 1988
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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]
- Subjects :
- *METAPHOR
*LECTURERS
*COMPREHENSION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08857253
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Metaphor & Symbolic Activity
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 7329510
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327868ms0304_2