Metaphor and the 'Emergent Property' Problem: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach

The interpretation of metaphorical utterances often results in the attribution of emergent properties; these are properties which are neither standardly associated with the individual constituents of the utterance in isolation nor derivable by standard rules of semantic composition. For example, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Robyn Carston, Deirdre Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2008-08-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v3i0.23