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communication often resort to metaphors to convey abstract or complex concepts by drawing upon familiar and concrete domains. The metaphor "time is money" is frequently utilized across various languages to convey the value and limited availability of time, as noted by Golfam, Ghorbanpour, and Mahdipour (2019), Marian-Arnat (2021) and Wakota (2021).
(2010), expands on Davidson’s (1978) contention that metaphor comprehension is imagistic in nature. Carston (2010), building on the idea that there are fundamental differences between extended literary metaphor or mixed metaphor and conventional metaphor, argued that two competing processes occur during metaphor comprehension.
Jan 31, 2010 · An interesting finding regarding mixed metaphor is that all the mixed metaphors (regarding the data of governors and mayors), in this book, consist of the following pairs: Journey and War, Journey ...
The metaphors satisfy the two basic conditions for mixed metaphor: (1) they occur in textual adjacency, i.e. within a single metaphor cluster, and (2) they do not (for the most part) share any imagistic ontology or any direct inferential entailments between them. Mixed metaphors like these have traditionally posed a challenge to theorists.
Sep 27, 2019 · The original metaphors are much stronger than the replacements, and if other scientists do not even know about the challenges to the models, images and metaphors that underlie their disciplines ...
In chapter 7, Sullivan discusses what she terms “multiple metaphors”, i.e. metaphor combinations that do not “mix” incongruently, because the respective source domains are kept apart, e.g. through contrastive comparison formulations (These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb) or in similes where “metaphors combine well” (A. Einstein’s ‘Life is like ...
Oct 23, 2018 · Abstract. “Mixing Metaphor” is a compilation of 12 chapters by prominent researchers, introduced by Raymond Gibbs, one of the main actors in the field of metaphor studies. It is a highly ...
