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