Understanding assertion and truth in relation to metaphor
The central question I engage with in this dissertation is this: are declarative metaphorical sentences truth-evaluable? I pursue an affirmative answer to this question within a pragmatic framework that does not (1) reduce the metaphorical to the literal, (2) appraise the metaphorical in terms of th...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25046 |