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METAPHOR AND ITS TIES TO AMBIGUITY AND VAGUENESS.
- Source :
- RSQ: Rhetoric Society Quarterly; Summer/Summer1983, Vol. 13 Issue 3/4, p209-220, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 1983
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Abstract
- This paper examines the comparative usefulness of seeking to explain metaphor through the notions of ambiguity and vagueness. I argue that, despite long standing attempts to explain metaphor as a species of ambiguous language, all such attempts fail. I also argue that a less explored association, that between metaphor and vague language, can be exploited much more successfully in explaining a quite different aspect of metaphor--why speakers might choose that trope over literal utterance in everyday contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- METAPHOR
AMBIGUITY
VAGUENESS (Philosophy)
FIGURES of speech
LANGUAGE & languages
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02773945
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- RSQ: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16252715
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02773948309390697