In:Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
[Human Cognitive Processing 78] 2024
► pp. 18–42
Chapter 1Metaphor
Published online: 8 November 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.78.c1
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.78.c1
Article outline
- 1.1Introduction
- 1.2Defining metaphor
- Reference and sense
- Modification
- Assignment
- 1.3Problems of the literal-metaphorical distinction
- 1.4Clines of metaphor
- 1.4.1Approximation and varieties of similarity
- 1.4.2Contradictoriness
- 1.4.3Explicitness and marking
- 1.4.4Conventionality
- 1.5Conceptual metaphor and the experientialist hypothesis
- 1.6Lexicographical evidence to test Lakoff’s theory: The Thesaurus
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