The Life and Death of a Metaphor, or the Metaphysics of Metaphor
This paper addresses two issues: (1) what it is for a metaphor to be either alive or dead and (2) what a metaphor must be in order to be either alive or dead. Both issues, in turn, bear on the contemporary debate whether metaphor is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon and on the dispute between Conte...
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| 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.v3i0.16 |