La métaphore « inappropriée » : échec du partage sentimental et flou résultatif

Metaphors, unlike comparisons, may be perceived as impolite speech acts. This study explains why: I define metaphor as a linguistic utterance in which the speaker appropriates language, such an appropriation taking the risk of being considered as inappropriate. If and only if metaphors fail, i.e do not communicate the precise feeling which prompted them, they give rise to a lasting effect of fuzziness.